Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Supporting several Office versions in an add-in. Interop assemblies and late binding.
Andrei Smolin | March 16th, 2010
When accessing a COM type library in .NET via early binding you need to use a corresponding interop. An interop for an Office application is a .NET assembly providing meta-information about objects, properties, methods, and parameters available in the type library (=object model) of the Office application. Microsoft provides interops for all Office applications starting from Office version 2002... Read the rest of this entry →
Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 and Add-in Express 2010
Eugene Starostin | March 5th, 2010
Every time when I set about to write on some topic like this, I am torn by internal strife - whether to develop a theme in such a major-marketing tone, so characteristic of bravura press-releases that have already flooded web-sites of component vendors, or simply publish a post on the blog... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Register your MS Office add-in with WiX
Fokke Post | February 8th, 2010
If you are using Microsoft’s WiX toolset to build a setup for your Add-In, then there are several ways to register the Add-In. I’ve seen examples that use a custom action to call RegSvr32.exe to do the registration. But since RegSvr32.exe does nothing more than calling the DllRegisterServer function of our Add-In, why not calling that directly from a custom action?... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express for Office – Generation 2010 roadmap
Eugene Starostin | February 5th, 2010
We started Generation 2010 in November, 2009 and even had time to release Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer. As for "Office", for quite a long time there have been more questions than answers. And, quite naturally, we've been dependent not only on the plans of Microsoft but Embarcadero's schedule as well... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express upgrade policy
Eugene Starostin | January 18th, 2010
After we had sent out the newsletter about Generation 2010 of Add-in Express (Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer is the first swallow : -), I received a few questions about our upgrade policy. Well, I will try to formalize this issue here... Read the rest of this entry →
The Old New Year 2010 and Add-in Express 2010 for Internet Explorer
Eugene Starostin | January 15th, 2010
A period of more than 3 centuries when our country was part of Russia brought to our initially West-European culture lots of things habitual for Eurasian culture. Now we celebrate with the same passion Catholic Christmas, New Year, Orthodox Christmas and finally the Old New Year... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop an RTD Server for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 24th, 2009
In this short video we will show you how to develop an RTD Server using Add-in Express for Office and .NET. In the next 2 minutes you will get the basic notion of real time data server: how to create it, return a value and see how the RTD server works in Excel... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create a Smart Tag for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 18th, 2009
After COM add-ins and RTD servers, smart tags are arguably the third most-in-demand extensions in Microsoft Office world. In today's video sample we are going to show you how to develop a smart tag for Microsoft Excel XP, 2003 and Excel 2007... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop a plug-in for Outlook 2000 – 2010 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 11th, 2009
Outlook is one of the most in-demand applications of the Microsoft Office Suite. That is why it has always been a featured application for Add-in Express. In this video HowTo sample we will show you how to customize the Outlook GUI in minutes using the Add-in Express components and visual designers... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create an Excel COM add-in in Visual Studio
Dmitry Kostochko | December 5th, 2009
This sample starts the new series of visual HowTo. We thought it would be a good idea to give you a sort of hands on training with Add-in Express. Today we are going to look at one of the most frequent tasks, creating a COM add-in for Microsoft Office.... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Alarm – Office Live Add-in and Word 2003
Eugene Starostin | May 1st, 2009
Strange things mentioned in my previous post continue to happen. To the bug successfully fixed in the Office Live Add-in on Excel 2007, there's added a nasty and so far no-solution problem with the same add-in, this time on Word 2003... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Alarm – Excel experienced a serious problem with the ‘microsoft office live add-in’
Eugene Starostin | April 30th, 2009
Strange things started happening around us. Swine flu added to the global economic crisis, and we have problems with Office 2007 and the Office Live Add-in added to our pre-release testing for compatibility with the recently released Office Service Pack 2. The fact of the matter is that... Read the rest of this entry →
Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 3
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2009
Part 2 of the Advanced Outlook Regions series, which focused on Outlook Explorer and Inspector regions, ended with the promise that there would be no pictures in the upcoming post, instead it would touch on rather unobvious, rarely used, but highly interesting stuff. Well, the first thing that I'd like to start with is cached instancing... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Work with threads in Microsoft Office COM add-ins
Dmitry Kostochko | April 17th, 2009
It is generally known that the Microsoft Office Object Model is not thread safe and accessing some object, property or method not from the main thread may sometimes result in a host application crash. Of course, nothing prevents you from using threads inside the add-in itself, threads that don't need the Office Object Model... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 download links
Eugene Starostin | April 3rd, 2009
If your professional or premium subscription has not expired yet, or if you purchased Add-in Express after December 15, 2008, the upgrade is free for you. Otherwise, you can upgrade for 50% off the regular price... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 what’s new and fixed
Eugene Starostin | April 3rd, 2009
Yesterday, on the 2nd of April, we uploaded beta 2 of Add-in Express 2009. Please, do not confuse it with Add-in Express 2010, announced in the April, 1 newsletter. Today, let it be a serious talk :)... Read the rest of this entry →