Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Creating integrated Office solutions with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 7th, 2011
Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio... Read the rest of this entry →
How to localize your Office COM add-in
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 24th, 2011
Let's be honest, the present day market place is an international one. It is no longer good enough to only have your application and/or add-in support just in one language. If you're planning on taking over the world you need to start thinking "localization".... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating an Office COM add-in: getting started for VB developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 2nd, 2011
How to quickly create a shared COM add-in for Microsoft Outlook, Excel and word in VB.NET. Sample add-in is available for download.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to install multiple Office add-ins using one setup project
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 30th, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can install multiple Add-in Express Microsoft Office Add-ins without building multiple setup programs. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio
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Video: Add-in Express visual designers – skip coding your custom Office components, simply draw them!
Ty Anderson | March 25th, 2011
Office developers like to build solutions of all shapes and sizes. And if we only compare building of Office solutions to building buildings, we'll see that the fun part is the stuff you can see like the doors and the windows the façade and the paint – all the things that are visually appealing, the things that your users notice. The less desirable part of buildings is the stuff you don't see, perhaps the plumbing... Read the rest of this entry →
How to customize Office 2010 and 2007 Ribbon with your own tabs or controls
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 22nd, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can insert your own ribbon tabs (for Office 2007-2010) and controls (for Office 2000-2003) before or after Office's built-in tabs or controls. I'll also show you how you can add an existing built-in Office control to your own ribbon tab... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Add-in Express makes Office development rewarding
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
Office development is a rewarding experience providing you the developer using Visual Studio the opportunity to impact the lives of users of all shapes and sizes. Using Office as the development platform, you can build solutions that integrate with your users' business processes and simplify their life... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Microsoft Office abuses its developers and how Add-in Express stops this
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
If you have any experience in developing solutions on the Office platform, you have most likely learnt that Office has the tendency to abuse its developers. One of the main reasons for this is that Office is comprised of several different applications like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and each of these applications has their own object model that you need to understand and master when building your solutions... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | March 1st, 2011
This is the final part of the series that describes all possible ways of deploying your Add-in Express-based Office extensions. I recommend that you begin from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions: Overview. Or, if you are interested only in ClickTwice :) deployment, you can start right away with Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 28th, 2011
Part 7 of the deployment series explains how you can use your favorite installer software to deploy your Office extensions over the web; this is the essence of ClickTwice :). If you didn’t read the previous parts of the series, I'd advise that you start with Part 1 - a brief overview of the available deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 3 of the deployment series that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 2 of the series that covers all possible ways of deploying Add-in Express based Office extensions. Part 1 provided a brief overview of the available deployment technologies and now we are going to have a close look into deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions – step-by-step guide
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building advanced task panes and advanced Outlook regions, using advanced controls
Ty Anderson | February 7th, 2011
I admit it…it's been awhile since we published Part 1. So I don't blame you if gave up hope of ever seeing Part 2. But I'm here to tell you that you have not waited in vain because today we present to you Part 2 of the Create an Office Shared Add-in series... Read the rest of this entry →