Posts Tagged ‘VB.NET’
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: Create an Internet Explorer add-on for IE 6, 7 and 8 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | January 15th, 2010
I am sure you know that Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most popular web-browser. According to the Global Web Stats for December, 2009 Internet Explorer (8, 7 and 6) takes 50.3% of the market. Millions of people use IE every day at work, at home, on their way from work to home or the other way around... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Develop an RTD Server for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 24th, 2009
In this short video we will show you how to develop an RTD Server using Add-in Express for Office and .NET. In the next 2 minutes you will get the basic notion of real time data server: how to create it, return a value and see how the RTD server works in Excel... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Create a Smart Tag for Excel 2002 – 2007 in VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | December 18th, 2009
After COM add-ins and RTD servers, smart tags are arguably the third most-in-demand extensions in Microsoft Office world. In today's video sample we are going to show you how to develop a smart tag for Microsoft Excel XP, 2003 and Excel 2007... 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 →
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: 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: Get an IE add-on to interact with a standalone application
Dmitry Kostochko | June 26th, 2009
In general, you can have IE add-ons interact with standalone applications by using Windows messages and the Shared (static in C#) GetModulesByTypeName method of the AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEModule class. There is just one limitation: both processes (IE with your add-on and standalone application) must be running in the same Integrity Level... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Synchronize settings of an IE plug-in
Dmitry Kostochko | June 19th, 2009
Nearly every software has some settings. An Internet Explorer plug-in is not an exception. The IE plug-in settings can be stored either in a file or in a registry branch, all is simple and transparent about this. But how to ensure the settings synchronization for all active instances of the IE plug-in in all running Internet Explorer processes?... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Deal with Protected Mode API in Internet Explorer 7 and IE8
Dmitry Kostochko | June 12th, 2009
The Protected Mode feature was introduced in Internet Explorer 7 and continues to exist in Internet Explorer 8. Nearly at the same time when the Protected Mode feature appeared Microsoft introduced Protected Mode API for developers to use this feature. All API functions are implemented in the Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net product and today we are going to look into their capabilities... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Use MS Word Object Model to get synonyms and antonyms lists programmatically
Dmitry Kostochko | May 23rd, 2009
In one of my previous HowTo samples I showed you how to use the Microsoft Word Object Model capabilities for spell checking. Today we will look at one more ability of Microsoft Word, namely the capabilities of its dictionary, more specifically synonyms and antonyms. We will need the SynonymInfo object and SynonymList and AntonymList properties... Read the rest of this entry →