Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 2 drag-and-drop
Eugene Starostin | April 3rd, 2009
It seems like after another new visual feature being added to Add-in Express 2009, our screenshots look more and more variegated. Scary variegated, I would say... Read the rest of this entry →
April 1st newsletter – Support for VisiCalc, WordStar, OpenOffice and ClosedOffice
Eugene Starostin | April 3rd, 2009
Two days ago, that was April, 1, we sent out a newsletter (you certainly got it if you are on our mailing list) that didn't contain any valuable information at all, no features, no bug fixes, no enhancements. Just a couple of jokes and a few comments that I thought were funny enough to make our customers laugh. Why do I recur to that newsletter here and now? Because the feedback I received was just staggering!... Read the rest of this entry →
Converting existing Office COM add-in projects to Add-in Express
Andrei Smolin | April 2nd, 2009
Last week I had a chance to check out how easy the conversion process is. A customer related about troubles he was having when trying to get his Outlook add-ins to work. Soon it became clear that this is yet another case of a VSTO add-in colliding with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Outlook add-in ...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Use the Microsoft Word Object Model capabilities for spell checking
Dmitry Kostochko | March 27th, 2009
The Microsoft Word Object Model contains a lot of capabilities that .NET developers can benefit from. While everybody knows about the abilities of Microsoft Word related to text formatting, few are aware of its rich capacity in the spell check area…... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 what’s fixed
Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
As compared to the previous generation, Add-in Express 2009 doesn’t contain revolutionary changes or enhancements. We have not rewritten the core code completely, the major part of the time was spent on the most in-demand features, such as Outlook view and form regions and Excel, Word and PowerPoint task panes... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 zero-visibility
Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
If someone all of a sudden decides to read through whatsnew.txt from the Add-in Express 2009 distributive, they may run into a mysterious point: IMPROVED: Advanced form and view regions for Microsoft Outlook. Here is what it means... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 compatibility
Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
What shall you expect from the new releases? What's new? Are there many changes? I will try to answer all questions here, in this post, as well as in a couple of upcoming ones... ... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 availability
Eugene Starostin | February 26th, 2009
Finally we uploaded beta 1 of Add-in Express 2009 for Office (all three editions) and Add-in Express for Internet Explorer. You can download it right now ...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Fix “Old format or invalid type library” error (0x80028018)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 13th, 2009
Today I’d like to draw your attention to one specificity of the Excel Object Model that every .NET developer should be aware of. Those who are unaware, may get the notorious "Old format or invalid type library" error...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Support MS Office applications, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in one project
Dmitry Kostochko | January 30th, 2009
Yes, you can do that in one Visual Studio project, but not in one solution. And yes, you can do it using the Add-in Express products. There are only two things to keep in mind…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Install a COM add-in automatically using Windows Server Group Policy
Dmitry Kostochko | January 25th, 2009
Here you will get to know how you can use Windows Server Group Policy to install Office applications automatically, including Office COM add-ins. You will learn how to create a Group Policy object in Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008, how to assign and remove an installation package…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Store Microsoft Office documents in your custom data storage
Dmitry Kostochko | January 16th, 2009
One of the tasks that developers often run into is saving and retrieving Office documents (or document copies) from external data storage. This storage can be an SQL database, Web-service, FTP server as well as a shared network resource of a local area network. Let’s try to handle this task for such popular MS Office applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook…... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express for Office and .net / VSTO / VCL – Which product do I choose?
Eugene Starostin | January 14th, 2009
A rare day passes when we do not receive a question like that. We have several template answers which are helpful in some degree in deciding which Add-in Express edition to choose. But I am not satisfied with any of the templates. Now I will try to depict everything that makes a real difference between three editions of Add-in Express for Office, and all that is worth taking into consideration when choosing the edition right for you.... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express 2009 Roadmap – Part 2
Eugene Starostin | December 24th, 2008
I have discovered an interesting fact. My posts on this blog led to the increased number of messages in my Inbox. But practically no one writes directly here, to the blog. The main goal is reached, though – we have got one more tool for communication with our customers... :-)... Read the rest of this entry →
The New Year 2009 is coming!
Eugene Starostin | December 22nd, 2008
The New Year is coming! For the last seven days I'm saying these words every time I step over the threshold of our office. Do you feel there is something special in the air? :) So, I will be brief...... Read the rest of this entry →
Migrate the code of your Office solution from Win32 and VBA code to .NET
Andrei Smolin | December 19th, 2008
As you probably know the .NET Framework provides a number of advantages when compared to Win32 programming. Say, administrators have by far more control over your code – they may restrict your code to use these or those resources or permissions. While it puts some limits on developers, companies are able to build environments that are safer and more controllable. ... Read the rest of this entry →