Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
HowTo: Get properties of an Outlook email item drag-and-dropped onto a .NET form
Dmitry Kostochko | March 20th, 2009
There is only one simple and reliable way to get a valid Outlook object when dragging Outlook items onto a .NET form of your Outlook add-in. Let's have a good look at this way by example of MailItem and an advanced Outlook form region...... Read the rest of this entry →
HowTo: Use the View.XML property to filter Outlook items
Dmitry Kostochko | March 13th, 2009
The View object itself is simple but it has one very powerful property. This property is called XML, it contains an xml definition of a folder view and today we are going to look at the capabilities of the filter element…... Read the rest of this entry →
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 →
Add-in Express 2009 – Beta 1 zero-visibility, part 2
Eugene Starostin | March 2nd, 2009
As early as in July 2008, in version 4.2 we added beta support of three rather specific regions: FolderView and ReadingPane for the Outlook Explorer window, and InspectorRegion for the Outlook Inspector window. Since then we have fixed a couple of bugs, but didn’t go through with it to announce these regions 100% complete... 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: 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 →
Add-in Express for Office and .net / VSTO / VCL – Which product do I choose?
Eugene Starostin | January 14th, 2009
A rare day passes when we do not receive a question like that. We have several template answers which are helpful in some degree in deciding which Add-in Express edition to choose. But I am not satisfied with any of the templates. Now I will try to depict everything that makes a real difference between three editions of Add-in Express for Office, and all that is worth taking into consideration when choosing the edition right for you.... Read the rest of this entry →
The New Year 2009 is coming!
Eugene Starostin | December 22nd, 2008
The New Year is coming! For the last seven days I'm saying these words every time I step over the threshold of our office. Do you feel there is something special in the air? :) So, I will be brief...... 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 →
Add-in Express 2009 Roadmap
Eugene Starostin | November 28th, 2008
Many of you have already enquired about our roadmap for the year 2009. Its rough outline is ready, but as you understand, we reserve the right to introduce some changes. Well, now in more detail...... Read the rest of this entry →
Developers wanted for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express projects
Andrei Smolin | November 26th, 2008
If you do programming for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer or Outlook Express and have some experience in copywriting, then take a minute to read this page to the end. I am sure we’ll make a bargain.... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating new Add-in Express projects in Visual Studio .NET
Eugene Starostin | November 22nd, 2005
What are the shims and is it necessary to sign add-in projects with strong names? In general, I strongly recommend always including shims in your add-in projects if you have C++ in your Visual Studio .NET.... Read the rest of this entry →