Posts Tagged ‘VB.NET’
HowTo: .NET controls in Internet Explorer – natural behavior and look-and-feel
Dmitry Kostochko | March 7th, 2009
As for the way .net controls behave in Internet Explorer, it’s Okay, Add-in Express will take care of it. As concerns their look-and-feel, we are going to scrutinize this issue closely today. Standard .NET controls look rather clumsy in Internet Explorer...... 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 →
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 →
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 →
HowTo: Fix “Old format or invalid type library” error (0x80028018)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 13th, 2009
Today I’d like to draw your attention to one specificity of the Excel Object Model that every .NET developer should be aware of. Those who are unaware, may get the notorious "Old format or invalid type library" error...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Handle the Outlook ItemSend event: C#, VB.NET examples
Dmitry Kostochko | February 6th, 2009
One of the most frequent questions we get concerning the Outlook Object Model is "How to handle the Send button event?" Here is the answer: "You need to use the Application.ItemSend event"...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Support MS Office applications, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in one project
Dmitry Kostochko | January 30th, 2009
Yes, you can do that in one Visual Studio project, but not in one solution. And yes, you can do it using the Add-in Express products. There are only two things to keep in mind…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Install a COM add-in automatically using Windows Server Group Policy
Dmitry Kostochko | January 25th, 2009
Here you will get to know how you can use Windows Server Group Policy to install Office applications automatically, including Office COM add-ins. You will learn how to create a Group Policy object in Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008, how to assign and remove an installation package…... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Store Microsoft Office documents in your custom data storage
Dmitry Kostochko | January 16th, 2009
One of the tasks that developers often run into is saving and retrieving Office documents (or document copies) from external data storage. This storage can be an SQL database, Web-service, FTP server as well as a shared network resource of a local area network. Let’s try to handle this task for such popular MS Office applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook…... Read the rest of this entry →
Migrate the code of your Office solution from Win32 and VBA code to .NET
Andrei Smolin | December 19th, 2008
As you probably know the .NET Framework provides a number of advantages when compared to Win32 programming. Say, administrators have by far more control over your code – they may restrict your code to use these or those resources or permissions. While it puts some limits on developers, companies are able to build environments that are safer and more controllable. ... Read the rest of this entry →
CodeGear Delphi Prism and Microsoft Office extensions
Eugene Starostin | December 17th, 2008
Embarcadero, continuing to support Delphi for Win32, is about to launch onto the market the version of Visual Studio 2008 Standard with Delphi for .NET built in. To be more precise, this is not the original Delphi for .NET, nor is it a reincarnation of Delphi 8, it is a "new" .NET-oriented programming language, which, however, already has a rich history. ... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Exchange Data using the Outlook Attachments collection
Dmitry Kostochko | December 12th, 2008
Normally Outlook developers use the MailItem.UserProperties collection to send and receive some additional information with email messages. In this sample add-in for Microsoft Outlook, I suggest a slightly different approach ...... Read the rest of this entry →