Develop Outlook Express and Windows Mail add-on / plug-in in .NET and Delphi

Create plug-ins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail in C#, VB.NET, C++

Add-in Express for Outlook Express

This visual RAD tool empowers you to quickly develop managed, secure, isolated and deployable plugins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail. Add-in Express provides Outlook Express with a unified extensibility model based on familiar interfaces and objects of the Microsoft Office and Outlook, and gives you visual designers for advanced customization of Outlook Express menus and toolbars, advanced view and form regions and more.

Another benefit of Add-in Express is version neutrality, which means that you need not develop separate add-ins for different Outlook Express versions. Your Outlook Express plug-ins are version-independent, i.e. you write your code once and have it work across Outlook Express 6 on Windows 2000 and XP through Windows Mail on Vista.

Currently two editions of Add-in Express for Outlook Express are available:

• .NET edition that directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), Visual C#, and C++ in Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, as well as RemObjects Chrome.
• VCL edition that directly supports Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, 2006 and Delphi 2007.

With Add-in Express for Outlook Express you can:

• Add custom menu items to the main Outlook Express menu and Inspector menus. 
• Create custom toolbars for the main OE window and mail windows. 
• Use simple, pop-up, dropdown, split buttons and separators on Outlook Express toolbars. 
• Develop view and form regions for the Preview pane, main Outlook Express window, mail compose and read windows. 
• Build regions for the Folder List, Contacts pane and Outlook Bar.

Key benefits for Outlook Express add-in development

• Version-independent plug-ins. With Add-in Express, you write your code once and have it work in Outlook Express 6 on Windows 2000 and XP and in Windows Mail on Vista.
• Benefit from your Outlook development experience. Add-in Express reflects the Outlook Object Model to Outlook Express, you use Outlook-like objects and events when accessing Outlook Express and in this way benefit from your experience in Outlook development. 
• A dedicated loader isolates each add-in into its own AppDomain. Now you can build managed, easily deployable and secure extensions for Outlook Express that extend its GUI and automate its objects.
• Powerful project templates and visual designers. These templates comprise all necessary functionality for developing Outlook Express plugins and centralize all technology-specific components through visual designers and modules. You use visual designers and Outlook Express-related components instead of routine coding to customize Outlook Express menus and toolbars and handle Outlook Express events.
• Component-centric programming model. Special components of Add-in Express make your coding productive, and your add-ins feature-rich and effective.
• Setup projects created automatically. To each Outlook Express solution, Add-in Express adds a special setup project based on the built-in Visual Studio technology.

For more information please see:

Add-in Express for Outlook Express home page
How to create Outlook Express add-on step-by-step