Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
Deploying Office extensions – step-by-step guide
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – ReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 18th, 2011
In the last video of the Reading Pane customization series we are going to show you how to replace the entire Reading Pane with our custom region. The ReadingPane advanced region is a special region type... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 11th, 2011
This is one more example of the Outlook Reading Pane customization, and today we will cover the BottomReadingPane region. In this video we are going to create a new advanced region and locate it beneath the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – RightReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | February 4th, 2011
As you can guess from the title of this post, today it is the turn for the RightReadingPane region. In this video HowTo sample, we are going to create a new region residing to the right of the Outlook Reading Pane, and we'll add just a little code there... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – TopReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 28th, 2011
This is yet another sample of the Outlook Reading Pane customizations, in which we look into the capabilities of the TopReadingPane region... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real-Time Data server: Utility functions; building help, part 12
Maurice Calvert | January 27th, 2011
Hoping again for re-use, I created a little utility library which contains some general-purpose functions that you may find useful... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval, part 11
Maurice Calvert | January 26th, 2011
By default, Excel won't call RefreshData more often than every 2 seconds (the Throttle Interval). For financial data that's arriving fast and furiously, this is reasonable, but for GeodesiX it makes the interface seem rather slow... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10
Maurice Calvert | January 25th, 2011
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server: Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane, part 9
Maurice Calvert | January 24th, 2011
Another short subject, but worthy of a few remarks. The GoogleMaps taskpane is implemented in a separate project, hopefully re-usable. The task pane is created in Geodesix.AddinModule #27#, which also contains the event handlers
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Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – LeftReadingPane region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | January 21st, 2011
After a short break, let's go on with the serious of our small HowTo samples. Now it's time to look into different ways of customizing the Outlook Reading Pane... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Avoiding Application Domain misery, part 8
Maurice Calvert | January 21st, 2011
This is a short but important subject (assuming you're using Addin Express for Office and .net). There are 3 types of Add-in Express module used in Geodesix
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Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Talking to the GoogleMaps APIs, part 7
Maurice Calvert | January 20th, 2011
This subject is already extremely well documented here, so I'll just point you to the relevant code. The call to GoogleMaps is at #7# in Geodesic.Resolve.Resolve... Read the rest of this entry →
Building an Excel Real Time Data server: Providing easy-to-read function names, part 6
Maurice Calvert | January 19th, 2011
Geeks like us have no qualms about typing =RTD("Geodesix.RTD",,"geocode","status","Tokyo") in an Excel cell to get a value. Normal people find this a bit clumsy, and it would be nice to humour them. Excel provides a way to this quite simply
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Building a Real Time Data: Excel, multithreading and callbacks, part 5
Maurice Calvert | January 18th, 2011
Excel's muilti-threading is a strange beast. As we saw in part 4: Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Architecture, Excel calls happily but won't receive unsolicited calls. This is perfectly reasonable once you understand the Windows message pump, if the UI thread is waiting on a Dialog box, it can't accept other work... Read the rest of this entry →
How to add a custom header to your Outlook form or task pane: C# and VB.NET
Dmitry Kostochko | January 17th, 2011
Usual Add-in Express advanced region or task pane can has a header - a multi-functional area above the region that allows the end-user to minimize the region, close it or switch between forms located in the same region... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Architecture, part 4
Maurice Calvert | January 17th, 2011
This is part 4 of the tutorial that describes the techniques necessary to build an Excel RTD server. If you have just come to this page, I suggest you read all parts in order, here is Building a Real Time Data for Excel, part 1. Putting together an RTD server is not particularly difficult… once you […]... Read the rest of this entry →