In my last article we took a whirlwind trip through the process of starting a new Add-in Express Office add-in from a VSTO developer’s point of view.
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).
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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. You’ve already spoken to our friendly sales staff and bought your own license of 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.
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If you’re an avid user of Excel, you would’ve noticed that Excel 2013 has moved from being a Multi document interface (MDI) application to being a Single document interface (SDI) application.
Essentially what this means is that one Excel window holds one Excel workbook, whereas in the past you could have multiple Excel workbooks open in one Excel window.
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I’m sure you’re all aware of the fact that, from Visual Studio 2012, that Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) is a thing of the past. This news has been met with shock, horror and disappointment, but luckily all is not lost.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous article Creating a WiX setup project on Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft is touting WiX (Windows Installer XML) as the heir apparent to the traditional VS Setup projects and all things considered it is a very good and free alternative.
The problem, however, is when you’ve already invested a great deal of time and energy in creating a .vdproj installer for you application, the prospect of having to re-create it using WiX is not a welcome one.
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Something that I’ve noticed is that if you want to really start bending Microsoft Outlook to your programming will, you need to start embracing and combining the use of message classes and content types when developing Outlook add-ins.
If you’ve been using Add-in Express for a while or have read through our website and relevant blogs in the past, you’ll surely know that Add-in Express has a very useful feature we call Outlook Context Sensitivity. This allows you to display (or hide) your own custom UI elements as well as a certain number of the built-in Outlook UI elements.
In this article we’ll dive into some real-world examples and I’ll show you how to truly integrate your solutions into Microsoft Office using Add-in Express for Office and .net.
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If you’ve read through our website content, you would probably have read that Outlook is one of the most featured Microsoft Office applications supported by Add-in Express. Microsoft Outlook is also one of the most popular desktop e-mail clients, so it makes sense as a developer to leverage that popularity and to extend Outlook with your own functionality.
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The Microsoft Outlook Rules is a very powerful feature that can sometimes get lost amongst the myriad other features and abilities of Outlook. Many Outlook programmers do not realise that Microsoft introduced a new rules object model in Outlook 2007 allowing developers to harness the power of Outlook rules.
In this article we’ll explore aspects of the rule object model and I’ll show you how to create your own rule and how to execute rules on demand on any folder in Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013.
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Years ago I found this article by Helmut Obertanner on CodeProject. In this article Helmut explains how you can replace the built-in Outlook Address book dialog with your own form. I was amazed and intrigued! This approach is a great way to provide your users with a custom address form that is able to retrieve contact address information from literally any source e.g. CRM or customer database.
So, in today’s article I’ll show you how you can use Helmut’s code in your own Add-in Express projects and how to intercept and customize not just the built-in Outlook Address book dialog but also any other Outlook dialog.
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You know, I love working for Add-in Express! I think there are few companies that cover so many interesting things to write about. Take this article for example, Eugene asked me to write an article on how the Add-in Express team merged a number of add-ins into one assembly when they build the AbleBits Excel Add-ins Collection.
When I first heard about this topic, I had no idea how to even tackle this problem. Fortunately, one of the perks of writing this blog for Add-in Express is access to the best MS Office developers in the world, and Aleksey send me a sample project. Phew!
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When creating a new Office extension with Add-in Express for Office and .net you have the option to design your entire add-in user interface using our visual designers, by simply dropping the various components on the design surface of the AddinModule.
This is fine for most Office add-ins especially when you do not require a lot of custom user interface elements and customization. However, when you start to have many components your AddinModule‘s design surface can quickly become very crowded and hard to maintain.
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