Posts Tagged ‘task panes’
Video HowTo: ClickOnce installation for Office add-in in minutes (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | March 26th, 2010
This visual sample is purposed mainly for novices in Office development. It demonstrate the facilities of the ClickOnce technology with regard to installation of a simple Excel add-in based on Add-in Express with Advanced Excel Task Panes... Read the rest of this entry →
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 an Excel COM add-in in Visual Studio
Dmitry Kostochko | December 5th, 2009
This sample starts the new series of visual HowTo. We thought it would be a good idea to give you a sort of hands on training with Add-in Express. Today we are going to look at one of the most frequent tasks, creating a COM add-in for Microsoft Office.... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 Word and PowerPoint capabilities
Eugene Starostin | March 3rd, 2009
Keeping up the development of Add-in Express most in-demand features, we tweaked the Advanced Task Panes for working on Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. Early in the morning today, I wrote the previous sentence, captured and pasted the above screenshot and realized that there is nothing more to write on this issue... 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 Excel capabilities
Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
In addition to bug fixes, which I must admit were not too numerous, and some platform-dependent modifications and enhancements concerning Excel, we've decided to improve Advanced Excel Task Panes as well... Read the rest of this entry →