Develop Office 2007 - 2000 Outlook, Excel, Word add-in /plugin in Delphi

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

Add-in Express for Delphi VCL

Add-in Express for 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 Borland Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, Delphi 2006 and 2007. All the add-ins for Outlook, Excel and Word that you can see on this site are built on Add-in Express. Borland's Office Automation Servers components are directly integrated into Add-in Express VCL which makes coding more comfortable and applied code smarter.

Generation 2008 of Add-in Express for Delphi VCL allows programming deployable, powerful, shared and fast plug-ins for all available Microsoft Office versions, including Office 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 2007 - 2000.

With Add-in Express 2008 Delphi developers can:

For COM add-ins:

• Create your own or customize existing toolbars, menus and sub-menus and their controls for Office 2000 - 2007.
• Add your own or customize existing tabs for the Office 2007 Ribbon user interface.
• Tune the Quick Access Toolbar and the Office Menu for Office 2007.
• Develop your custom task panes for Excel and Outlook.
• 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.

For Outlook plug-ins:

Add-in Express extends the Microsoft Outlook Object Model and introduces Advanced Outlook Form and View customization that allows you to:

• Add new toolbars, menus and sub-menus in Outlook 2000 - 2003 and Outlook 2007.
• Create or customize Outlook 2007 ribbons, ribbon tabs.
• Customize Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows.
• 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.

Get special plugin for customizing Outlook forms and views for free!

When you buy any of the Add-in Express for VCL packages, you get a special plugin, the Add-in Express Extensions for Outlook for advanced customization of Outlook forms and folder views (Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows) by embedding feature-rich forms into Microsoft Outlook Advanced Regions.

You write functional code only

Add-in Express 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 implements all interfaces and techniques required by the supported technologies. You just run one of the Add-in Express wizards from the Delphi IDE and get a ready project that centralizes all technology-specific components and the main project logic through a special RAD module. 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 VCL allows you to program Office COM add-ins, smart tags and Excel RTD servers in Borland Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, Delphi 2006 and 2007.

It completely supports all main applications from the Microsoft Office Family 2007 - 2000: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapPoint, Publisher, Access, and FrontPage. All Microsoft Office service packs and updates are supported.

Each add-in based on Add-in Express is shared, i.e. it can work with several or 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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