Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – DockLeft region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 25th, 2011
With a little regret I proceed to the final part of the video how-to series covering Outlook explorer regions. We have just 4 more explorer regions to look into - DockLeft, DockTop, DockRight and DockBottom... Read the rest of this entry →
Extend Your World – with our newest product
Eric Legault | February 24th, 2011
We here at Add-in Express like to boast that our products can help you take control of your projects, and take over the more mundane (and sometimes incredibly frustrating) aspects of add-in development. After all, our tools are focused on Rapid Application Development (RAD)... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – ReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 18th, 2011
In the last video of the Reading Pane customization series we are going to show you how to replace the entire Reading Pane with our custom region. The ReadingPane advanced region is a special region type... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 11th, 2011
This is one more example of the Outlook Reading Pane customization, and today we will cover the BottomReadingPane region. In this video we are going to create a new advanced region and locate it beneath the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building advanced task panes and advanced Outlook regions, using advanced controls
Ty Anderson | February 7th, 2011
I admit it…it's been awhile since we published Part 1. So I don't blame you if gave up hope of ever seeing Part 2. But I'm here to tell you that you have not waited in vain because today we present to you Part 2 of the Create an Office Shared Add-in series... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – RightReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 4th, 2011
As you can guess from the title of this post, today it is the turn for the RightReadingPane region. In this video HowTo sample, we are going to create a new region residing to the right of the Outlook Reading Pane, and we'll add just a little code there... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – TopReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 28th, 2011
This is yet another sample of the Outlook Reading Pane customizations, in which we look into the capabilities of the TopReadingPane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – LeftReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 21st, 2011
After a short break, let's go on with the serious of our small HowTo samples. Now it's time to look into different ways of customizing the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
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 →
Announcing two new “Power Toys” for Outlook
Eric Legault | January 13th, 2011
While our Add-in Express Toys illustrate how to use our framework to build add-ins in general (the current samples are for Outlook, Excel, Word and Internet Explorer), our new super-premium high-octane (but still FREE!) Add-in Express Power Toys go one step further by adding missing functionality to our favourite Office applications!... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced region events: how to know that the user expanded your form?
Fedor Shihantsov | January 11th, 2011
Hello folks! Through our forums and e-mail, we are frequently asked questions like this by our fellow developers: How do I know that the user expanded my Add-in Express form? In this article, I will cover the events that are raised when the region is expanded and other events that occur when the region's state is changed... 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 →
How to highlight Outlook forms programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 14th, 2010
Version 6.3 of Add-in Express for Office and .net provides us with a new method to highlight form regions in Microsoft Outlook. Let's test the new method by creating a new Visual Studio 2010 ADX COM Add-in project... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Outlook 2010 Solution Modules
Ty Anderson | December 13th, 2010
In Office 2010, Microsoft introduced the Outlook solutions module to give us developers the capability to create custom modules for Outlook. What's a custom module? It's an Outlook add-in that... 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 →
New designers for region and task pane managers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 6th, 2010
Version 6.3 of Add-in Express brings with it a number of new features. One of which is the new in-place designers for the following components... Read the rest of this entry →