Posts Tagged ‘Office’
How to add a custom header to your Outlook form or task pane: C# and VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | January 17th, 2011
Usual Add-in Express advanced region or task pane can has a header - a multi-functional area above the region that allows the end-user to minimize the region, close it or switch between forms located in the same region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Outlook context sensitivity
Ty Anderson | December 23rd, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, Pieter wrote a great post that explains how to use context sensitivity when customizing the Outlook user interface. Context sensitivity allows you to dynamically change the user interface depending upon what the user is doing within Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
100% version neutrality for your Office extensions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 13th, 2010
Finally, when you completed your add-in, there is no need to build separate setup programs for different versions of Office. Generating a setup program is as simple as right-clicking your project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer and selecting Create Setup Project from the context menu... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying your Add-in Express solutions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 10th, 2010
What we as developers often leave as an afterthought or the very last task on our list when developing applications, is the deployment and installation of our products. In our enthusiasm to "get the product out of the door" we forget that... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced Outlook form regions: customize an e-mail form
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 16th, 2010
Today, I would like to show you how to add extra functionality to the Outlook Inspector objects using advanced regions and Add-in Express 2010. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express deployment models – ClickOnce and ClickTwice :)
Ty Anderson | November 12th, 2010
A good speech requires a good ending. The same is true for software. You invest a significant amount of time building a software solution so don’t mess it up when it comes to your deployment. Add-in Express provides two methods for deploying your addins: ClickOnce and ClickTwice. This video does three things for you... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Version neutrality for Office extensions, from Office 2000 to 2013
Ty Anderson | November 11th, 2010
I have three kids of differing ages and sex. They are alike and yet so very different. Providing for their wants and needs on a daily basis is a challenge. For example, what I typically think is an easy decision (an afternoon snack) isn't so easy when my kiddos are involved. Each wants something different which requires me to do my best impression of a short-order cook... Read the rest of this entry →
On using threads in managed Office extensions
Andrei Smolin | November 4th, 2010
Briefly: There are cases when using threads in your .NET-based Office add-in is okay; but in the general case, using threads isn't recommended. Consider a typical Outlook add-in scanning a lot of e-mails which should not prevent a user from working with the Outlook UI (the UI always runs in the main thread)
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Customizing Outlook calendar with Advanced regions: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 25th, 2010
Today, we'll write an add-in to display calendar specific information in Outlook 2010 using Outlook advanced regions and Add-in Express 2010. Start of in the usual fashion by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010
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Eric Legault: My story
Eric Legault | October 18th, 2010
Hello everyone! I'm very honoured and excited to be the newest member of the Add-in Express team!! And what a team it is! I've been a heavy user and fan of Add-in Express for Office and .NET and have had many dealings with various members of the team over the past few years... Read the rest of this entry →
Build an Outlook Northwind Connector with Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 18th, 2010
The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector did not always play nicely together with Add-in Express Advanced regions, however, Add-in Express rose to the occasion and it is working since Version 6.2.3049. Although we are able to build our own provider for the standard Outlook Social Connector; Northwind Traders needed something that would work perfectly alongside their […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomNavigationPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 11th, 2010
This sample opens a new series of HowTo videos that will showcase each Outlook region that can be customized using Add-in Express for Office and .net. In today's Video HowTo we will show you how to create your own form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook Navigation Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
MS Outlook Advanced Regions, Folder Views and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 11th, 2010
In this week's post, we'll build an add-in for Northwind Traders with which they will be able to set a different view on their Inbox in order to see a time-based view on when orders have been received. We'll be using an advance forms region to give our users an easy-to-use interface... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Project 2010: COM add-in development
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 7th, 2010
In this weeks' post I'll demonstrate how using Add-in Express 2010, you can write an add-in to integrate MS Office Project 2010 and MS Office Outlook 2010 and vice versa... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create add-ins for Office Access 2010: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 27th, 2010
I'm sure like me, a lot of IT professionals had customers who made a substantial investment in developing a custom application in MS Access. As is the nature of such things, the customer outgrows their MS Access application and is soon in need of a larger, more complex system... Read the rest of this entry →
Visio 2010: Writing COM add-ins in C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 20th, 2010
The beauty about Add-in Express is that it allows you to write add-ins for those Microsoft Office applications that you wouldn't even have thought it possible. In this post I'll show you how to create an add-in for MS Visio 2010 that automatically builds an Organizational chart for Northwind Traders.
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