A Toolkit/Component Component by Add-in Express Ltd.

This programming toolkit allows Office developers to create professional extensions for Microsoft Office: COM add-ins, smart tags, real-time data servers and user-defined functions with minimal coding. Add-in Express for Microsoft .net and Office provides you with components and designers to integrate your applied code into all applications from the Microsoft Office family including Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint, MapPoint, FrontPage, InfoPath, Project and Publisher.

Using Add-in Express visual designers, wizards, modules and components you can create version-neutral, secure, isolated, deployable and automatically updatable Office extensions with your own toolbars, menus, ribbons, form regions, task panes and keyboard shortcuts in minutes. All available Office versions, from 2000 to 2007, and Office suites, from Student to Enterprise, are supported transparently.

Add-in Express .NET is developed in C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), C#, and C++ in Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, as well as RemObjects Chrome. VB.NET Express and C# Express are supported, too.


Key benefits:

The following is an overview of just some of the many unique features and benefits you’ll find in the newest version of Add-in Express:

• Advanced customization of Microsoft Office 2007, including the Ribbon UI, Quick Access Toolbar, Office Menu, and Task Panes.

• Ability to develop one extension for all available Office versions (2000, 2002, 2003, 2007) and Office suites (Student, Home, Standard, Professional, Professional Plus, Ultimate, Enterprise); you needn't create different projects for different Office versions since Add-in Express supplies you with a version-neutral core and Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs).

• Advanced Outlook customization offers a unique GUI for your Outlook plug-ins. Now you can use any .NET forms and controls on Outlook windows such as Outlook views, e-mail windows, task windows, appointment windows, Navigation panes, To-Do bars, etc. All Outlook versions are supported transparently.

• Advanced Excel features provide you with your own real-time data servers and new worksheet functions supported by Excel 2000 – 2007. Add-in Express supports two ways of creating custom worksheet functions, using Excel Automation add-ins and XLL add-ins.

• Full support for Windows Vista and Windows x64 platforms increases an installation base for your extensions as well as the support for C# and VB Express and Visual Studio Standard editions gives you a chance to use low-cost or free IDEs for your commercial Office extensions.


Main Features:

Add-in Express project templates, components and visual designers allow you to create version-neutral, secure, isolated, deployable and automatically updatable Office extensions including COM Add-ins, Smart Tags, Excel RTD Servers and Excel Worksheet Functions (UDF).

You can use Add-in Express components and their visual designers to:

• Add new and customize built-in toolbars, menus and pop-ups for all Microsoft Office 2000 – 2007 applications

• Create custom ribbons, Office application menus, quick access toolbars and task panes for Office 2007

• Customize existing ribbons with your own ribbon tabs or tab sets, tune up the Office Application Menu with your own sub-menus

• Add your own keyboard shortcuts or override any existing keyboard shortcuts

• Intercept any ID-based built-in controls such as the Send button in Outlook, the Save and Save As buttons in Word, the Find button in Excel, etc.

• Customize any Outlook views and any Outlook forms with you .NET forms

• Completely replace Outlook views with your .NET forms (as Outlook Today)

• Add you own property pages to Outlook folders

• Bind toolbars, certain controls, ribbon tabs, menus, and sub-menus to the current context. E.g. you can show your toolbars for
specified Outlook folders, items or views

• Build you own Outlook Navigation Pane shortcuts

• Use any .NET controls on your toolbars

• Develop in one project smart tag libraries with multiple, shared or dynamically created recognizers

• Program Excel real-time data servers and tree-viewed real-time data topics

• Develop new Excel worksheet functions (UDF)

• Access any Office objects, their properties and methods, handle their events

IDEs:

Visual Studio® 2003, 2005, 2008
Visual Basic® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
Visual C#® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
Visual C++® .NET 2003, 2005, 2008
VB.NET 2005, 2008 Express
C# 2005, 2008 Express
RemObjects Chrome 1.5 and higher

Applications:

Microsoft Excel® 2000 - 2007
Microsoft Outlook® 2000 - 2007
Microsoft Word 2000 - 2007
Microsoft FrontPage® 2000 - 2003
Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000-2007
Microsoft Access 2000 - 2007
Microsoft Project 2000 - 2007
Microsoft MapPoint® 2004
Microsoft Visio® 2002 - 2007
Microsoft Publisher 2003, 2007
Microsoft InfoPath® 2007

Licensing

30-day money-back guarantee, no royalty or runtime fees. Simple install policy - developer installs one license on three PCs. Secure order process and instant delivery. 50% discount for mISVs and shareware developers.

System Requirements

Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008 .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Windows 2000, 2002, 2003, Vista