Use visual designers of Add-in Express 2007 for .NET to develop secure and isolated, version-neutral and feature-rich, deployable and updatable extensions for all available Microsoft Office versions, including Office 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and Office 2000.

Project templates of Add-in Express support all Office extensibility technologies including COM add-ins, smart tags, real-time data servers and Excel user-defined functions.

With Add-in Express 2007 you can create both application-specific extensions, e.g.

Outlook plug-ins or Word smart tags, and shared extensions that work on all end-user applications from the Microsoft Office family: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapPoint, Publisher, Access, FrontPage and InfoPath.

Use visual designers provided by Add-in Express to:
-Build new or customize existing toolbars, menus and sub-menus on Microsoft Office 2000 2003.
-Add new or customizing existing tabs for the Office 2007 Ribbon UI, build the Quick Access Toolbar and the Office Menu.
-Develop your own task panes for Office 2007 applications.
-Access any Office objects, handle any Office events.
-Customize Microsoft Outlook windows, views and forms with advanced form regions.
-Develop application-level keyboard shortcuts.
-Add Outlook option and property pages.
-Use any .NET controls on Microsoft Office toolbars.
-Intercept any built-in controls.
-Develop Smart Tag recognizers.
-Program Microsoft Excel RTD servers and topics.
-And, write a version-neutral applied code that works transparently on all Office versions.

Add-in Express 2007 for .NET is developed in C# and directly supports C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C++, J# and Delphi for .NET.

Add-in Express supports Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, .NET Framework 1.0 and higher.

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