Develop Office 2007 - 2000 add-ins /plugins in Visual Studio .NET

Outlook, Excel, Word add-in / plugin in Visual Studio .NET - VB.NET, C#, C++

Add-in Express .NET

Add-in Express .NET is feature-rich visual tool for creating Office COM add-ins, smart tags and RTD servers in Visual Studio .NET (C#, VB.NET, C++). It is the first RAD toolkit that empowers software developers to customize all end-user applications of Microsoft Office 2007 - 2000 using visual designers and Office-ready components.

With Add-in Express .NET you can:

• Create your own or customize existing toolbars, menus and sub-menus for Office 2000 - 2007 at design time.
• Intercept custom and built-in shortcuts and use them for your own controls, substitute built-in controls with new ones.
• Place custom controls and any built-in controls together on command bars, menus and context menus.
• Handle all events of all Microsoft Office applications.
• Add your own or customize existing tabs for the Office 2007 Ribbon UI.
• Build the Quick Access Toolbar and the Office Menu for Office 2007.
• Develop application-level keyboard shortcuts.
• Develop Smart Tag recognizers.
• Program Excel RTD servers and topics.
• Build Excel User-Defined functions with Excel Automation add-ins and XLL.
• Create custom Excel task panes for Excel 2000-2007.
• Extend Outlook Navigation pane, Reading pane, To-Do bar with custom forms.
• 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.

 Complete support for Office 2007 Ribbon UI and Vista

The new generation of Add-in Express .NET allows programming deployable, updatable, secure and isolated, version-neutral feature-rich plug-ins for all available Microsoft Office versions, including Office 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and Office 2000.

Add-in Express has all necessary tools to build solutions of any scale based on the Microsoft Office extensibility in minutes. Visual designers provided by Add-in Express make possible to customize the Office 2007 Ribbon user interface as well as the old-style Office GUI, which makes equally easy to create new or to customize existing ribbons, ribbon tabs, task panes on Office 2007 and to build toolbars, menus and sub-menus on all previous versions of Microsoft Office (2000 - 2003). Add-in Express components provide handling of any Office events, and allow writing a version-neutral applied code that works transparently on all Office versions. Project templates embedded into Add-in Express support all Office extensibility technologies including COM add-ins, smart tags and real-time data servers, and are specially designed to make Office solutions secure, isolated, automatically deployable and updatable.

Advanced features for Outlook, Excel and Word developers:

• For Outlook developers: Advanced Outlook Form Regions that allows Outlook developers to use any controls on any Outlook windows and run regions on Outlook 2007 as well as on Outlook 2003, 2002 and 2000; the support of the multi-explorer and multi-inspector modes; trusted add-ins; option pages for the main Outlook Options dialog and property pages for the Folder Properties dialog; Outlook Explorer- and Outlook Inspector-specific command bars etc. More about special features for customizing Outlook: Navigation pane, Outlook bar, To-Do bar.
• For Excel developers: special features for development of Excel COM add-ins and Excel Automation add-ins and XLL; custom worksheet functions in Excel formulas; creating custom task panes, handling any MSForms controls embedded into Excel workbooks; combining add-ins, custom worksheet functions and MSForms controls in one project. More special features for creating advanced GUI of Excel add-in.
• For Word developers: handling any MSForms controls embedded into Word documents.

2 more plugins for customizing Outlook forms and Office toolbars are included!

When you buy any of the Add-in Express for .NET packages, you get 2 more plugins: the Add-in Express Extensions for Outlook that allows customizing Outlook folder views and Outlook forms (Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows)by embedding feature-rich .NET forms; and the Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office for adding any visual .NET controls onto Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint commandbars.

Save hours of coding, write applied code only!

Add-in Express .NET is completely based on the RAD paradigm which allows you to create add-ins, smart tags and RTD servers without coding their GUI. Add-in Express .NET implements everything required by the COM add-in, smart tag and Excel RTD server technologies, adds to IDE several wizards, installs technology-specific components, and organizes projects through the special RAD modules. All this makes COM add-in development much faster and easier.

Supported IDEs and applications

Add-in Express .NET is developed in C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), C#, C++, RemObjects Chrome in Visual Studio 2003, 2007 and Visual Studio 2008.

Add-in Express .NET completely supports all main applications from the Microsoft Office Family 2000 - 2007: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapPoint, Publisher, Access and FrontPage.

With Add-in Express .NET there is no need to develop different add-ins for different applications. Each add-in based on Add-in Express is shared, i.e. you write the add-in code once and have it work in all Office versions from 2000 to 2007.

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Add-in Express customers say:

From Google Groups: Add-in Express - amazing!

This morning, while talking with a prospect, they told me that a competing vendor told them they would add a feature that would let them import emails into their software in a fairly unique way. My response? Of COURSE we can do that too! What I didn't tell them was that I didn't know jack or squat about Outlook add-ins.

Enter Add-in Express. Less than four hours later, I had a fully integrated add-in which did exactly what the client wanted. Did I mention that I didn't require any support or assistance, and did everything based on the manual and demos from the website? No? Well, that's a pretty big deal for me. :-) So, if you need to integrate with Outlook, or with MS Office in general, check out this product. It's amazing.

You can read the whole Google Groups thread here

Tim Sullivan, Unlimited Intelligence Limited
www.uil.net

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