Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’
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 →
Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 2
Eugene Starostin | April 15th, 2009
My previous post was about what the Advanced Outlook Regions really are. And now I will show you all possible regions for two main Outlook windows - Explorers and Inspectors. In this post there are a lot of pictures and little text. As usually, all the forms that I am going to demonstrate do not have a single control... Read the rest of this entry →
Complete review – Advanced Outlook Regions, part 1
Eugene Starostin | April 15th, 2009
Our web-site somehow absolutely imperceptibly for me turned into a collection of pages containing a bit outdated information about our products. I think we will spend the whole year 2009 on putting our web-site in order. In the meantime, I am going to systematically publish complete reviews of one or other of the capabilities that, in my opinion, are covered insufficiently or their descriptions are outdated. And I will start with perhaps the most popular feature of Add-in Express - the Advanced Outlook View and Form Regions... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Customize Outlook Navigation Pane – C#, VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | April 10th, 2009
What is the Outlook Navigation pane? According to Microsoft, it is the column on the left side of the Outlook window that includes panes such as Shortcuts or Mail and the shortcuts or folders within each pane. The Navigation Pane was introduced in Outlook 2003 and enhanced in Outlook 2007. Let's see what a developer can do with the Navigation Pane... 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 →
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 →
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: Get properties of an Outlook email item drag-and-dropped onto a .NET form
Dmitry Kostochko | March 20th, 2009
There is only one simple and reliable way to get a valid Outlook object when dragging Outlook items onto a .NET form of your Outlook add-in. Let's have a good look at this way by example of MailItem and an advanced Outlook form region...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Use the View.XML property to filter Outlook items
Dmitry Kostochko | March 13th, 2009
The View object itself is simple but it has one very powerful property. This property is called XML, it contains an xml definition of a folder view and today we are going to look at the capabilities of the filter element…... 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, part 2
Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
As early as in July 2008, in version 4.2 we added beta support of three rather specific regions: FolderView and ReadingPane for the Outlook Explorer window, and InspectorRegion for the Outlook Inspector window. Since then we have fixed a couple of bugs, but didn’t go through with it to announce these regions 100% complete... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Search in Outlook items programmatically
Dmitry Kostochko | February 27th, 2009
You can search in Outlook in three different ways – by using the Items.Restrict method, Items.Find in liaison with Items.FindNext and Application.AdvancedSearch. The first two have essential limitations in use…... 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 →
HowTo: Deal with the Recipients collection in Outlook
Dmitry Kostochko | February 20th, 2009
Well, it’s all about Outlook again. Today we will look at the capabilities of the Recipients collection, Recipient and AddressEntry objects. Using these objects you can get all necessary information about recipients, and you can also modify their e-mail addressees...... Read the rest of this entry →