Posts Tagged ‘VB.NET’

Video HowTo: Creating an XLL add-in for Excel 2000 – 2007 (VB.NET)

Looking at the list of already published video howto samples, I just realized that most of them target Outlook. This is no wonder at all, because every MS Office developers would confirm that Outlook is the most in-demand application from the Microsoft Office family... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Resize Advanced Task Pane programmatically (VB.NET)

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 →

Video HowTo: Intercept clicking on standard Office Ribbon controls (VB.NET)

The answer is very simple indeed - you can use the ADXRibbonCommand component. The main difficulty is that you need to know IDs of standard controls. You can find a list of all available control IDs on the Microsoft web-site (see the link at the end of this post)... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Design Outlook form regions with Add-in Express 2010

Today I want to show you how to use Outlook Form Regions that were introduced in Outlook 2007 with Add-in Express based add-ins. In my sample projects I will use Outlook 2010 as its popularity grows up with the oncoming release date. Also, I will use Add-in Express 2010 to demonstrate that our team do not go round in circles from year to year ... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: ClickOnce installation for Office add-in in minutes (VB.NET)

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: Customize Fluent Ribbon UI in Outlook 2007 Inspectors (VB.NET)

Most of Office 2007 applications have the Fluent Ribbon UI. Today we will explore the most popular methods of customizing this part of the user interface on example of Outlook 2007 Inspectors... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector using Advanced Outlook Regions (VB.NET)

This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing inspectors in Outlook 2000 - 2007. Using Advanced Regions you can embed any .net forms into a native Outlook Inspector window and position it to the right, to the left, above or below the inspector window, or overlaying it... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector toolbars (VB.NET)

Today we are going to explore the capabilities of the ADXOlInspectorCommandBar component that you can use to add your own toolbars and modify existing ones in Outlook 2000, XP and 2003. This component as well as ADXOlExplorerCommandBar is context-sensitive... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector in a VB.NET COM add-in

A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting article on MSDN - Building a C++ Add-in for Outlook 2010. Aha, Outlook 2010, I need to scrutinize it when I have a spare minute, definitely I will find something remarkable there. This is what I thought when added a new task with the link to that article to my TODO list. Well, I've got a spare minute today... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VB.NET)

This is yet another short HowTo sample of the serious exploring all possible ways of the Outlook UI customization. And today we will show you how to customize the Inspector main menu in Outlook 2000-2003... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Inspector menu (VSTO)

We continue a series of short video HowTo samples that focus on various ways of customizing the Outlook user interface. Today we are going to look into the main menu of Outlook 2003 Inspector... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer using Add-in Express regions (VB.NET)

This video HowTo showcases the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for customizing Outlook 2000 - 2007 views. Using advanced regions you can embed your .net form into a native Outlook view and customize such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading Pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation Pane, etc... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Customize Outlook Explorer using Add-in Express Regions (VSTO)

Today's HowTo sample is devoted to the capabilities of Add-in Express Advanced Regions for modifying Outlook 2007 views. You can use Advanced Regions to embed your .NET form into a native Outlook view and modify such Outlook Explorer parts as Reading pane, List of items (Supergrid), place your custom form under the Navigation pane, etc... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: ribbon controls and keyboard shortcuts, part 3

This is the 3rd and the final part of the video series covering the development of Outlook COM add-ins with Add-in Express. You already know how to create a new Outlook COM add-in project and add a custom Outlook commandbar (part 1). You also know how to add a custom pane to Outlook windows and access the Outlook object model (part 2)... Read the rest of this entry →

Video HowTo: Create Outlook COM add-in: object model, task panes, events, part 2

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

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 →

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