Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’
Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: object model, task panes, events, part 2
Andrei Smolin | February 1st, 2010
In the first part of this video sample we showed you how to create a new COM add-in solution and add a new Outlook commandbar. Now we are going to demonstrate how to deal with custom task panes in Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: Explorer and Inspector command bars, part 1
Andrei Smolin | February 1st, 2010
This is yet another series of visual HowTo that focus on Outlook COM add-ins. We will start from the very beginning and show you how to customize Outlook command bars and their buttons, Outlook menu and task panes, how to modify the Ribbon UI and handle events of controls... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 29th, 2010
In this video we will again be going over possible ways of customization the Outlook Explorer UI with Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. In the first part of the serious we focused on customizing the Outlook Explorer menu. Today we will explorer the capabilities of the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer toolbars (VSTO)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 29th, 2010
We go on with looking at the possible ways of modifying the Outlook Explorer UI with the help of Add-in Express for Office and .NET components. Today we are going to look at how the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar component can help you add your own toolbars and modify the existing ones... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize the Outlook Explorer menu (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 22nd, 2010
Today's sample opens a series of VB.NET HowTo videos in which we will have a close look at the most common ways of customizing the Outlook Explorer UI. Let's start with the Outlook main menu... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Customize the Outlook Explorer menu (VSTO)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 22nd, 2010
This HowTo example opens up a series of videos for VSTO developers that focuses on the most common customization options for the Outlook Explorer UI... 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 →
HowTo: Get an attachment size in Outlook 2000 – 2007, part 2
Dmitry Kostochko | November 6th, 2009
In the previous sample, I showed how to get the PR_ATTACH_SIZE Extended MAPI property that returns the size of an Attachment object. To be more precise, it returns the size of the attached file and the size of some internal info. In most cases that makeweight does not matter at all... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Get an attachment size in Outlook 2000 – 2010, part 1
Dmitry Kostochko | October 23rd, 2009
The new Size property of the Attachment object was introduced in the Outlook 2007 Object Model. There exist at least two methods of getting the attachment size in older Outlook versions... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Drag and drop onto a minimized Outlook Region and Word Task Pane
Dmitry Kostochko | August 21st, 2009
In one of the previous posts, we examined the possibilities of retrieving properties from Outlook MailItem when dragging this item onto your custom form. Here is that post: How to get properties of an Outlook email item drag-and-dropped onto a .NET form. But what if the Advanced Region is in a Minimized state? In this case the form is hidden and none of the standard events will work... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Avoid limitations of Microsoft Outlook ItemAdd event
Dmitry Kostochko | May 15th, 2009
The description of the ItemAdd event is laconic and compact - "Occurs when one or more items are added to the specified collection. This event does not run when a large number of items are added to the folder at once." But what is really implied by the words "a large number of items"?... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Convert Exchange-based email address into SMTP email address
Dmitry Kostochko | May 8th, 2009
It would be true to say "get" rather than "convert". There could be only one right way – to use Extended MAPI. Another method is described in the MSDN article: How to retrieve alternate e-mail addresses by using CDO, but we will not see into this approach, because CDO is optional in Outlook 2003 and is absent completely in Outlook 2007... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Support Office 2007 color schemes in your custom forms and task panes
Dmitry Kostochko | May 1st, 2009
In Office 2007 there are 3 available color schemes – Black, Blue and Silver. The background of controls in command bars and ribbon tabs is changed by Office automatically. Do you want to try changing the background of your Outlook forms and Excel task panes when the MS Office color scheme is changed?... Read the rest of this entry →
Hint: How to completely reset Outlook regions
Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2009
When Outlook is closing, Add-in Express saves the state of all regions embedded into Outlook, namely their position (if drag-and-drop is turned on), state (regions can be minimized or entirely hidden) and size (if resizing is allowed). We implemented this feature just to give end-users the utmost comfort when working with Outlook regions... Read the rest of this entry →
Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 4
Eugene Starostin | April 29th, 2009
In version 2009 of Add-in Express, a new property appears - RestoreFromMinimizedState. Now I will show you its behavior. Let's say, we have a minimized by default region... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Identify the state and location of an Outlook form
Dmitry Kostochko | April 24th, 2009
Add-in Express 2008 allows placing several forms into one Outlook region or task pane. In addition, Add-in Express 2009 enables the end-user to drag and drop custom forms to wherever they want to (naturally, with the developer's permission). Do you need to know where your form is now and in what state? Of course, you do... Read the rest of this entry →