Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Add-in Express 2010 for Office: new GUI designers and the new guy
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2010
Firstly, let me introduce myself, I’m Pieter van der Westhuizen, a recent addition to the Add-in Express team and I will be your host on a series of blog posts covering various aspects of the Add-in Express product range. As a keen user of the Add-in Express tools, this is an ideal opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with like-minded users... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create advanced task panes in Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 14th, 2010
As you probably know Add-in Express for Office and VCL allows creating advanced task panes for MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2000-2010. Today we'll develop a single add-in project that supports Excel, Word and PowerPoint... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2010 RTM and Visual Studio 2010 RTM fully supported by Add-in Express 2010 Beta 2
Eugene Starostin | May 13th, 2010
I know for sure that quite an impressive number of our customers (about 2 thousands) are already using the previous beta to their utmost. To all of them as well as to those of you who received the keys but haven't thought yet about the compatibility with Office 2010, I recommend installing beta 2. And here is why... Read the rest of this entry →
How to show an Outlook.MailItem in PrintPreview mode programmatically
Andrei Smolin | May 6th, 2010
The Outlook object model doesn't allow showing the PrintPreview dialog. To show it in all Outlook versions, you need to call the Execute method of a corresponding command bar button. Also, in Outlook 2007 and 2010, you can invoke the corresponding Ribbon command using the ExecuteMso method of the Office.CommandBars class. Let's see how to do this... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office becomes free for Standard packages
Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2010
Until now only subscribers of Professional and Premium packages could be sure of their cloudless future with Add-in Express and confident that their Add-in Express based extensions would work consistently with Office 2010, 32- and 64-bit (naturally, the latter is only for .net). "Why so?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Just two screenshots
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Do not look for this in beta 1! :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced Office task panes and Office 2010 – first view
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Advanced Office task panes in Office 2010 have no principle differences from those of any other Office versions, they just work and that's it. That's why this subject is so arid, that I won't get back to it anymore. However, after scrutinizing all the above screenshots, I see that we will definitely ennoble certain "pixels"... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Managing updates, part 3
Sergey Grischenko | April 16th, 2010
This is the third and the final part of my series about ClickTwice - MSI-based web deployment technology introduced in Add-in Express 2010. In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our MSI-based web deployment, and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. And now we are going to have a close look at managing your application updates... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment: Publishing the application, part 2
Sergey Grischenko | April 15th, 2010
In the first article of this series I covered the basics of our Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment, also known as ClickTwice :) and gave you a step-by-step guidance on creating a new setup project. Now we are going to look at the main aspects of publishing the application using this deployment technology... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 MSI-based web deployment – ClickTwice :)
Sergey Grischenko | April 9th, 2010
Add-in Express provides two basic strategies for deploying its projects: publishing an application via the ClickOnce technology, or deploying it with a traditional setup using the Windows Installer. In case of ClickOnce deployment, your application is published to some centralized location, e.g. a network share, and the user installs it from that location... Read the rest of this entry →
Modifying an existing setup project to support Office 2010, 32-bit and 64-bit, in Add-in Express 2010
Andrei Smolin | April 8th, 2010
This is just a list of things you need to change in your existing Add-in Express Loader-based COM Add-in project (built with Add-in Express 2009 or earlier) for your add-in to support both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Office 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2010 for Office (.net and VCL) Beta 1 is published
Eugene Starostin | April 7th, 2010
This is again reposting of the newsletter that we sent out a few days ago. In the previous newsletter I promised to disturb you again only after publishing beta 1 of our flagship product – Add-in Express 2010 for Office. The time has come, but first I will tell an interesting story again, and then proceed to our news... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Design Outlook form regions with Add-in Express 2010
Eugene Astafiev | March 31st, 2010
Today I want to show you how to use Outlook Form Regions that were introduced in Outlook 2007 with Add-in Express based add-ins. In my sample projects I will use Outlook 2010 as its popularity grows up with the oncoming release date. Also, I will use Add-in Express 2010 to demonstrate that our team do not go round in circles from year to year ... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: ClickOnce installation for Office add-in in minutes (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 26th, 2010
This visual sample is purposed mainly for novices in Office development. It demonstrate the facilities of the ClickOnce technology with regard to installation of a simple Excel add-in based on Add-in Express with Advanced Excel Task Panes... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Create a COM add-in, XLL UDF and RTD server in one assembly
Andrei Smolin | March 24th, 2010
You know, a pessimist differs from an optimist by his attitude to a glass: the former thinks the glass is half empty, while the latter considers it's half full. When I was contemplating on the circumstances that made me write this post, I worked out another definition... Read the rest of this entry →
Why not to use Visual Studio 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1) for developing Office extensions
Andrei Smolin | March 18th, 2010
We insist on not using .NET Framework 1.1. Why? Because there is a high probability that an Office extension developed with this .NET Framework version will break down other Office extensions developed in higher .NET Framework versions... Read the rest of this entry →