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

Using visual designers and components of this visual RAD toolkit, you can easily develop professional plug-ins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

Key benefits:

1. Add-in Express employs the Microsoft Office COM Add-in technology for Outlook Express extensions. By choosing Add-in Express you gain familiar techniques and features including the IDTExtensibility2 interface, the "main" Outlook windows architecture, the CommandBars collection for accessing menus and toolbars (command bars), and a unified object model.

2. Add-in Express adds to each Outlook Express project a special module, the add-in module, which has a visual designer and serves as a container for other Outlook Express specific components such as toolbars, menus, controls and OE event components. This module and its designer centralize the general logic of your add-in, and empower you to extend the Outlook Explorer GUI with custom toolbars and menus with a couple of clicks.

With Add-in Express you can:

1. Build custom toolbars for the main OE window and mail windows and customize them with several types of controls. Now the following controls are available for adding to Outlook Express toolbars: simple, pop-up, dropdown, split buttons and separators.

2. Add custom menu items to the main Outlook Express menu and Inspector menus.

3. Create regions for the Preview pane.

4. Develop view and form regions for the main Outlook Express window, mail compose and read windows.

5. Build regions for the Folder List, Contacts pane and Outlook Bar.


Main features:

1. Ability to create 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.

2. Add-in Express reflects the Outlook Object Model to Outlook Express and, in that way, lets you benefit from your experience in Outlook development. You use Outlook-like objects and events when accessing Outlook Express.

3. 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.

4. Powerful project templates. They comprise all necessary functionality for developing Outlook Express plug-ins 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.

5. Component-centric programming model. Special components of Add-in Express make your coding productive, and your add-ins feature-rich and effective.

6. 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.

Supported IDS:

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

Supported applications:

Outlook Express 6.x
Windows Mail 6.x

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.x Windows 2000, 2002, 2003, Vista