Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | November 8th, 2010
We will continue our efforts in modifying the Outlook SuperGrid so that it looks and functions exactly as we need it. Today we are going to focus on the RightSubpane region, which is located to the right of the standard Outlook list of items... Read the rest of this entry →
On using threads in managed Office extensions
Andrei Smolin | November 4th, 2010
Briefly: There are cases when using threads in your .NET-based Office add-in is okay; but in the general case, using threads isn't recommended. Consider a typical Outlook add-in scanning a lot of e-mails which should not prevent a user from working with the Outlook UI (the UI always runs in the main thread)
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Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – TopSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | November 1st, 2010
Today we will give another shot to customizing the Outlook SuperGrid. Our next targeted region is TopSubpane region, which is located above the standard Outlook list of items... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 26th, 2010
Today we will show you how to create a custom form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook list of items, also known as Outlook SuperGrid among developers... Read the rest of this entry →
Customizing Outlook calendar with Advanced regions: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 25th, 2010
Today, we'll write an add-in to display calendar specific information in Outlook 2010 using Outlook advanced regions and Add-in Express 2010. Start of in the usual fashion by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010
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Build an Outlook Northwind Connector with Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 18th, 2010
The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector did not always play nicely together with Add-in Express Advanced regions, however, Add-in Express rose to the occasion and it is working since Version 6.2.3049. Although we are able to build our own provider for the standard Outlook Social Connector; Northwind Traders needed something that would work perfectly alongside their […]... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomTodoBar region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 18th, 2010
Today we will show you how to create your custom form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook 2007 and 2010 To-Do bar... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomNavigationPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | October 11th, 2010
This sample opens a new series of HowTo videos that will showcase each Outlook region that can be customized using Add-in Express for Office and .net. In today's Video HowTo we will show you how to create your own form and build it into the Outlook Explorer window under the standard Outlook Navigation Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Project 2010: COM add-in development
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 7th, 2010
In this weeks' post I'll demonstrate how using Add-in Express 2010, you can write an add-in to integrate MS Office Project 2010 and MS Office Outlook 2010 and vice versa... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create add-ins for Office Access 2010: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 27th, 2010
I'm sure like me, a lot of IT professionals had customers who made a substantial investment in developing a custom application in MS Access. As is the nature of such things, the customer outgrows their MS Access application and is soon in need of a larger, more complex system... Read the rest of this entry →
Visio 2010: Writing COM add-ins in C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 20th, 2010
The beauty about Add-in Express is that it allows you to write add-ins for those Microsoft Office applications that you wouldn't even have thought it possible. In this post I'll show you how to create an add-in for MS Visio 2010 that automatically builds an Organizational chart for Northwind Traders.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010, part 2
Pieter van der Westhuizen | September 7th, 2010
Welcome to the second part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM focused blog series. In part 1, we discussed how to customize the MS Dynamics CRM Outlook Client. In this post we'll continue to use Add-in Express 2010 to further customize the Outlook client and provide our users with an alternate user interface to MS Dynamics CRM... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Add any .net controls to Internet Explorer toolbars (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | July 28th, 2010
Besides Explorer bar and Explorer menus, I can suggest looking into one more visual thing that can be quickly customized with Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net. This is IE toolbars... Read the rest of this entry →
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Add-in Express 2010
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 26th, 2010
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is quickly becoming one of the leading CRM Suites for midsized and large organizations according to a recent research report. You might ask how this affects you as Office developer
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Insight of Add-in Express Loader
Sergey Grischenko | July 23rd, 2010
Add-in Express Loader is an unmanaged dll developed with the Visual C++ Active Template Library (ATL). It acts as a proxy between a host application and the real .NET library. The loader itself is never registered and it shouldn’t be. It is just specified as a dll to be loaded for managed classes
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Video HowTo: Customize main and context menus in Internet Explorer (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | July 16th, 2010
Apart from Explorer bar there are a few more things that can be easily customized in Internet Explorer and today we will look into the customization of main menu and context menus. Yes, you can modify them by adding your own menu items... Read the rest of this entry →