Posts Tagged ‘PowerPoint’
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building a custom Click Twice deployment package
Ty Anderson | February 9th, 2012
The video, Part 5, is the last of the series. In this 15-ish minute video, you will learn how to build a Click Twice deployment package for the MyTasks add-in. Click Twice is one of the major strengths of the Add-in Express toolset... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – interacting with Office object models & events
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2012
I admit some time has passed since we produced parts 1 and part 2 of our end-to-end demo. I'll take the blame for it. It's okay. But I want you to know the remaining parts have been sitting in my Outlook Tasks folder… staring at me… taunting me.
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Video: Advanced Task Panes – extend the UI of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Ty Anderson | May 12th, 2011
People use Microsoft Office for all sorts of tasks in order to get their work done. For example, they use Word to write proposals, they use PowerPoint to create awesome marketing presentations, and then they use Excel to calculate their commissions. But the thing is often users need to leave Office to go and gather information that they need to complete the document... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Add-in Express makes Office development rewarding
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
Office development is a rewarding experience providing you the developer using Visual Studio the opportunity to impact the lives of users of all shapes and sizes. Using Office as the development platform, you can build solutions that integrate with your users' business processes and simplify their life... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: How Microsoft Office abuses its developers and how Add-in Express stops this
Ty Anderson | March 10th, 2011
If you have any experience in developing solutions on the Office platform, you have most likely learnt that Office has the tendency to abuse its developers. One of the main reasons for this is that Office is comprised of several different applications like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and each of these applications has their own object model that you need to understand and master when building your solutions... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building the GUI
Ty Anderson | September 13th, 2010
I like to tinker with new technologies to see what they can do and how I could potentially use them in the solutions I build for my clients. A lot of the times my tinkering never leads to full understanding of the technology. In such cases, I don't blame myself nor my sometimes fickle love for the latest shiny bits... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Build and control Advanced Task Panes in Add-in Express 2010
Ty Anderson | July 1st, 2010
What I really write about today is the topic of Office task panes. Office 2003 calls them action panes. Office 2007 and 2010 call them custom task panes. At Add-in Express , they are known as Advanced Task Panes. What are they?... Read the rest of this entry →
Controlling Outlook region’s state and form’s size in Add-in Express 2010
Fedor Shihantsov | June 25th, 2010
Here I will tell you how and where you can control the state of the regions where a custom task pane or an Outlook region is located, and also show how you can control the size of those forms... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create advanced task panes in Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Delphi)
Dmitry Kostochko | May 14th, 2010
As you probably know Add-in Express for Office and VCL allows creating advanced task panes for MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2000-2010. Today we'll develop a single add-in project that supports Excel, Word and PowerPoint... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Support Office command bars and Ribbon UI in one add-in project (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 30th, 2010
Add-in Express supports creating COM add-ins for Office 2000 - 2010. Office 2000, XP and 2003 have a traditional command bar-based user interface, while Office 2007 is partially and Office 2010 is fully ribbonized. "How is it possible to support both types of user interfaces in one COM add-in project?" you may ask... Read the rest of this entry →
Advanced Office task panes and Office 2010 – first view
Eugene Starostin | April 22nd, 2010
Advanced Office task panes in Office 2010 have no principle differences from those of any other Office versions, they just work and that's it. That's why this subject is so arid, that I won't get back to it anymore. However, after scrutinizing all the above screenshots, I see that we will definitely ennoble certain "pixels"... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Resize Advanced Task Pane programmatically (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 9th, 2010
To resize your custom Office task pane, you need to use the trivial Width and Height properties of the particular instance of your task pane. There is just one important thing - the Splitter property should be set to None... Read the rest of this entry →