Posts Tagged ‘VSTO’
Excel 2013 add-ins in Visual Studio 2012: Getting started for VSTO developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 8th, 2013
In this article we'll have a look at how you, as a VSTO developer, can get started developing add-ins for Excel using Add-in Express and Visual Studio 2012.... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook 2013 add-ins and Visual Studio 2012: Getting started for VSTO developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 28th, 2013
Today we'll focus on how developers, coming from a Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) background, can get started developing add-ins for Outlook 2013 using Add-in Express and Visual Studio 2012 (C#, VB.NET or C++.NET).... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2013 add-ins & Visual Studio 2012: Getting started for VSTO developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 18th, 2013
So you've been using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) for some time now and luckily you've discovered a better and easier way to develop Office add-ins, namely Add-in Express. Ready to start a new happier life of creating awesome Office Outlook extensions you excitedly fire up Visual Studio and hit File, New Project... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating WiX installation projects for VSTO-based Office add-ins
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 13th, 2012
In the last two articles, I've shown you how to create a WiX installer for Add-in Express based add-ons from scratch and how to convert your existing setup projects to WiX. In this blog, I'll show you how to create a WiX installer for Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) based Office add-in projects... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Set a custom icon for an Outlook folder in the Navigation Pane
Eugene Astafiev | June 14th, 2012
Today I want to show you one of the new features Outlook 2010 brought to programmers. Now Outlook allows setting custom icons the Navigation pane folders. The Outlook Object Model provides a special method for this task – SetCustomIcon. So, let's start our journey into the Outlook programming world ... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new distribution list item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | March 29th, 2012
Sometimes Outlook users need to send their e-mails to the same recipients. The Outlook Object Model provides the DistListItem class exactly for this task. The distribution list represents a group of contacts that are related in some way... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Remove a Personal Folders file from the current Outlook profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2012
In my previous post we discussed how to add a new personal folders store to the Outlook profile. Now I would like to reveal the opposite action – how to remove a personal folders store... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Outlook Personal Folders store and add it to the current profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 19th, 2012
Sometimes developers need to add an additional store in Outlook for archiving e-mails, making backup copies of email conversations etc. The AddStore method of the Namespace class of the Outlook Object Model provides the required functionality... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 15th, 2012
Today I would like to show you how to filter task items using the Restrict method of the Items class which the Outlook Object Model provides for developers... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO – Microsoft Office developer happiness
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 13th, 2012
This being the eighth and final instalment of the Add-in Express vs. VSTO series, I thought I'd wrap up with what could possibly be the most important feature of Add-in Express: Developer Happiness... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Office add-in deployment
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 9th, 2012
Planning the deployment of any software product is something most of us leave right to the end of the project. It makes logical sense to do so, everything that needs to be built is built and we know what we need to deploy... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Custom Office task panes
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 6th, 2012
A task pane is a dockable window which was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP. It provided a new and convenient way for users to gather information and access common features and commands. Chances are that if you’ve used any application in the Microsoft Office suite you would have used a task pane... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Outlook Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 5th, 2012
In my previous articles I described how to use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items, contact and calendar items. Now I am going to show you how to apply the Find and FindNext methods for Outlook task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Outlook regions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 28th, 2012
Microsoft Outlook regions are cool. It offers developers the ability to add their own custom functionality to the standard Microsoft Outlook Inspector or Explorer windows... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new recurrent Task item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | February 23rd, 2012
There are two item types that can be recurrent in Outlook: appointment and task items. In one of my earlier posts described the first one. Now I am going to tell you the story about task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Visual designers for Office Ribbon UI customization
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 20th, 2012
Creating a Microsoft Office add-in prototype is certainly much faster with the help of Add-in Express's visual designers. The visual designers help you to very quickly and easily build complex Office UI's as well as customize the existing MS Office UI... Read the rest of this entry →