Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
Support for Office 2019 is added to Add-in Express for Office and .net
Dmitry Kostochko | November 23rd, 2018
Version 9.2 of Add-in Express for Office and .net is published, and we now announce full support for all versions of Office 2000 through 2019 32-bit and 64-bit... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express supports Visual Studio 2017 Release
Dmitry Kostochko | March 16th, 2017
A couple of days ago, we published a new minor version of Add-in Express for Office and .NET that fully supports the newly released Visual Studio 2017. Now you can use any version of VS 2010 to VS 2017 to quickly create world-class extensions for all Microsoft Office versions and applications from prototype to final release... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express sim-ships with Visual Studio 2017 RC
Dmitry Kostochko | December 9th, 2016
Last month Microsoft published Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017. We, as Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, were invited to support this version at the RC stage, and we were happy to seize the opportunity... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express sim-ships with Visual Studio 2015 and Office 2016 Preview
Dmitry Kostochko | May 28th, 2015
I am happy to report good news to all Add-in Express users – we are one of the Microsoft partners to sim-ship our products together with the Visual Studio 2015 RC and Office 2016 Preview... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating a standard setup project using WiX Designer
Ty Anderson | April 8th, 2014
Today, I'll walk you through how to use the Designer for Visual Studio WiX Setup Projects to create a standard install package for desktop application. Along the way, we'll utilize the user interface editor to add a custom screen to the installer... Read the rest of this entry →
Loading a .NET 2.0 Office add-in on a machine with .NET 4.0
Andrei Smolin | December 4th, 2013
The fact is: almost all Office add-ins will load correctly in this situation. Yes, you don't need to modify anything in the add-in unless your add-in is affected by the issues described in .NET Framework 4 Migration Issues... Read the rest of this entry →
Introducing Designer for Visual Studio WiX Setup Projects
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 19th, 2013
I'm sure by now you are all aware that Microsoft removed all Visual Studio Installer project types with the release of Visual Studio 2012. A suggested alternative to creating setup files was to use the very powerful and flexible WiX toolset. The one big problem, with switching over to WiX for your setup project was that, a lot of people already invested a considerable amount of time building a setup using the Visual Studio Installer project
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Please, don’t let us make your favorite IDE unsupported!
Eugene Starostin | November 19th, 2013
Currently we are working on new major releases and minor updates of our frameworks and tools. Just yesterday, an intense debate sparked among our team over whether we should continue to support some aged IDEs, e.g. Visual Studio 2005 and Delphi 5... Read the rest of this entry →
How to properly release Excel COM objects
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 5th, 2013
You'll see a lot of complaints on the internet about Excel and other Microsoft Office applications not quitting properly after using the object model to perform certain actions, or showing sporadic and unpredictable behavior in COM add-ins. In the end most of these issues boil down to developers not properly disposing of COM objects... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing Microsoft Excel ribbons and toolbars
Ty Anderson | September 30th, 2013
I think Excel's ribbon UI and toolbars are like a workbench, or set of tools. They are neatly arranged and reasonably grouped by task (although I know this is debatable). Today, we'll cover how to create custom ribbons and toolbars for Excel using Add-in Express for Office and .net... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing the Excel User Interface: What is and isn’t customizable
Ty Anderson | September 25th, 2013
Anytime Excel runs into a business process, users discover they require more of Excel. They can have more too by extending Excel via its API. Today, I'll cover what you user interface customizations are available to you when developing Excel add-ins with Add-in Express... Read the rest of this entry →
Excel add-in development in Visual Studio: Application and base objects
Ty Anderson | September 23rd, 2013
Today we start a new series to explain the basics (and more) of Excel add-in development. This is going to be serious fun because Excel rocks. Next to Outlook it might be the most popular target of Office add-ins... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express sim-ships with Visual Studio 2013
Dmitry Kostochko | September 18th, 2013
Good news for .NET developers! Add-in Express will ship simultaneously with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2013... Read the rest of this entry →
Working with Microsoft Word templates: C# sample
Ty Anderson | September 6th, 2013
This is a continuation of the work we did in my previous article. The difference is, we will use a pre-built template for inserting data. Instead of inserting data "willy-nilly", we need to find where to insert it within the document's pre-defined structure... Read the rest of this entry →
Populating Word documents with data from external sources (database, SharePoint, Outlook, etc.)
Ty Anderson | August 30th, 2013
Today, I have three main C# code samples that insert data into Word. Each sample method creates and then goes to town inserting data. It is a simple strategy and works very well to get you started integrating data into Word... Read the rest of this entry →
Working with Word document properties, bookmarks, content controls and quick parts
Pieter van der Westhuizen | August 27th, 2013
Even though the object model can be somewhat daunting it gives you amazing flexibility and power over programmatically bending MS Word to your will. In today's article we'll have a look at the Microsoft Word document properties, content controls, quick parts and bookmarks, and how you can access and use these objects in your own add-ins... Read the rest of this entry →