Develop Office 2010 - 2000 Outlook, Excel, Word add-in /plugin in Delphi

Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and VCL

Delphi - Developing COM add-ins /plugins, Automation Addins, smart tags and RTD servers

Add-in Express for Office and Delphi VCL is a powerful feature-rich programming toolkit for creating COM add-ins, Excel Automation add-ins, smart tags, RTD servers and user-defined functions (UDF) in Delphi 5 - XE. All the add-ins for Outlook, Excel and Word that you can see on this site are built on Add-in Express.

Add-in Express in combination with the perfect Delphi compiler gives you the best platform for Microsoft Office development. Delphi produces Win32 code that makes your add-ins compact, fast and easily deployable; Add-in Express offers you a powerful tool for Microsoft Office customization.

With Add-in Express for Office and VCL you can create powerful, shared, easy-deployable and fast plug-ins for all available Microsoft Office versions, including Office 2010 (32-bit), 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and Office 2000. All addins developed with Add-in Express are version-neutral, that is you write the add-in's code only once and have it work in Office versions.

With Add-in Express for Office and VCL developers can:

For COM add-ins:

• Add your own or customize existing toolbars, menus, sub-menus and pop-ups for Microsoft Office 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007.
• Create new or customizing existing tabs for the Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 Ribbon UI.
• Tunethe Quick Access Toolbar and the Office Menu for Office 2007.
• Build the Backstage View for Office 2010.
• Develop custom task panes for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 applications.
• Handle all events of all Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio etc.
• Intercept custom and built-in shortcuts and use them for custom controls, substitute built-in controls with new ones.
• Place custom controls and any built-in controls together on command bars, menus and context menus.
• Embed a code into event handlers of the built-in controls such as the Send button in Outlook, the Save menu item in Word, the Find command in Excel, and more.

For smart tags:

• Specify any smart tag topics and their recognizers including dynamical recognizers.

Special features for Outlook plug-ins:

Using our know-how, Advanced Outlook Form and View regions, you can:

• Add new toolbars, menus and sub-menus in Outlook 2000 - 2003 and Outlook 2007.
• Create or customize Outlook 2007 and 2010 ribbons, ribbon tabs.
• Customize Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows with sub-panes and form regions.
• Place custom forms over the Reading pane, Navigation pane, To-Do bar and Outlook bar.
• Create new tabs on the main Options window and the Folder properties window.
• Add custom groups of shortcuts to the Navigation Pane.

For advanced Excel customization:

• Develop effective RTD servers including passing parameters to any RTD functions.
• Use Excel Automation Add-ins to create new use-defined functions used for any purposes. More about Excel Automation add-ins.
• Customize Excel GUI with advanced Excel task panes. More about custom Excel task panes.

You write functional code only

Add-in Express for Office and VCL offers a true RAD approach to Delphi developers and allows writing application-level Office extensions without coding their GUI (graphical user interface). Add-in Express generates COM-based projects that contain all necessary functionality for Microsoft Office add-ins or smart tags and centralize all technology-specific components through visual designers and RAD modules. All this makes COM add-in development much faster and easier. No low level development, write functional code only!

Supported IDEs and applications

Add-in Express for Office and VCL allows you to program Office COM add-ins, smart tags and Excel RTD servers in Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, Delphi 2006, 2007, 2009 and XE.

It completely supports all main applications from the Microsoft Office Family 2010 (32-bit) - 2000: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapPoint, Publisher, Access, and FrontPage. All Microsoft Office service packs and updates are supported.

Add-ins based on Add-in Express are shared and version-independent, i.e. they can work with all versions of all host applications simultaneously, there is no need to develop different add-ins for different applications.

For .NET developers:

For Outlook programmers:

For Office developers:

Add-in Express customers say:

..."Creating Office add-ins has traditionally been something of a chore because of the tedium associated with COM programming. Enter Office Add-In Express. Aimed at Delphi developers, this toolkit integrates into the Delphi IDE and makes it much easier to build robust add-ins that work with both Office 2003 applications and older versions of the software"...

Dave Jewell, PC Plus
www.pcplus.co.uk

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