Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building the GUI
Ty Anderson | September 13th, 2010
I like to tinker with new technologies to see what they can do and how I could potentially use them in the solutions I build for my clients. A lot of the times my tinkering never leads to full understanding of the technology. In such cases, I don't blame myself nor my sometimes fickle love for the latest shiny bits... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 3
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 13th, 2010
When most organisations buy MS Dynamics CRM they probably already made an investment in systems to help them manage their business processes. In this post I'll demonstrate how you can use Add-in Express 2010 to easily leverage Northwinds' (Our Customer) existing web ordering system and import orders received from the internet into MS Dynamics CRM from within MS Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 2
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 7th, 2010
Welcome to the second part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM focused blog series. In part 1, we discussed how to customize the MS Dynamics CRM Outlook Client. In this post we'll continue to use Add-in Express 2010 to further customize the Outlook client and provide our users with an alternate user interface to MS Dynamics CRM... Read the rest of this entry →
From VB6 to .NET. At last…
Andrei Smolin | August 13th, 2010
In one of my previous lives, I was a VBA and VB6 developer: ReDim, InStr, Msgbox, If Not Obj Is Nothing and other ugly things were part of that nice life. Now I live another life and have both VB.NET and C# experience gradually shifting to C#. If you are a late wayfarer on the […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 26th, 2010
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is quickly becoming one of the leading CRM Suites for midsized and large organizations according to a recent research report. You might ask how this affects you as Office developer
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Insight of Add-in Express Loader
Sergey Grischenko | July 23rd, 2010
Add-in Express Loader is an unmanaged dll developed with the Visual C++ Active Template Library (ATL). It acts as a proxy between a host application and the real .NET library. The loader itself is never registered and it shouldn’t be. It is just specified as a dll to be loaded for managed classes
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Windows Presentation Foundation, Office 2010 and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 20th, 2010
If you look at the list of known issues for the latest release of Add-in Express 2010, you'll notice a specific issue I myself ran into not so long ago: WebViewPane region cannot be used for folders if their WebViewOn and WebViewUrl properties cannot be set. Possible solution is setting the "Allow Script in shared folders" and "Allow Script in Public Folders" options in the security settings
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Video: Build and control Advanced Task Panes in Add-in Express 2010
Ty Anderson | July 1st, 2010
What I really write about today is the topic of Office task panes. Office 2003 calls them action panes. Office 2007 and 2010 call them custom task panes. At Add-in Express , they are known as Advanced Task Panes. What are they?... Read the rest of this entry →
Smart Tags and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 28th, 2010
Smart Tags is a feature in Office by which Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (if Word is used as the default editor) recognizes certain words and then presents the user with additional actions based on the selected text. It is available in Office 2002 to 2007, it is noticeably absent in Office 2010 as it has been deprecated, meaning that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook will not automatically recognize words as in the previous versions... Read the rest of this entry →
MS Office toolbar and Ribbon UI images style guide
Sergey Grischenko | June 7th, 2010
Add-in Express for Office and .net supports several types of images on controls of Microsoft Office applications. These are bmp, png and ico formats. But not all the formats can be used in all versions of Microsoft Office... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 Solutions Module and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 4th, 2010
I'm sure a lot of us use MS Outlook as our primary application when developing solutions hosted on the MS Office platform or when doing simple productivity enhancing add-ins. Using Outlook is an obvious choice, think about it... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express in-place GUI designers (on an example of Outlook add-in)
Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2010
A key component of any Office add-in is the custom UI you develop for your users. And with Office, your add-in almost always requires a button or two in the Office menu or Ribbon. Add-in Express has long made it easy to build custom menus (aka CommandBars) and Ribbons... Read the rest of this entry →
.Net Framework 4, NoPIA and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 28th, 2010
Let’s take a break from the Northwind Traders application for a while and talk about a new feature available in .Net Framework 4 : NoPIA or Type Embedding. As you all know when we developed Office Add-ins or applications that integrated with the Office suite of products we have to include a reference to the Office PIAs or Primary Interop Assemblies
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Video: How to develop Outlook plugin – architecture and programming model
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2010
The 2010 version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET will be released soon. As you might expect, the upcoming release will support the significant new features included with Office 2010 while also supporting previous versions of Office (all the way back to Office 2000)... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing Office 2010 Backstage View with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 21st, 2010
Those of us that have already started using Office 2010, would’ve notice something unexpected when clicking on the file menu. Instead of the normal menu, you’ll notice a whole page occupying your screen. This is known as the backstage view... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 and Office add-ins: Getting started
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
I have used Add-in Express before and can honestly say that if you want to develop an MS Office add-in this product is definitely a worthwhile investment. In this post I’ll explain the benefits and some of the key features of Add-in Express 2010 for Office and .net when creating a small Office Add-in that is shared among Excel, Word and Outlook.... Read the rest of this entry →