Create MS Office plug-ins, smart tags, RTD servers, and Excel UDFs using visual designers with minimum coding. Our platform supports all MS Office versions from 2000 to 2010, and programming languages like C#, VB.NET, C++, and Delphi Prism.
One of the main advantages of Add-in Express is that it allows users to create application-level plugins and shared extensions that work on all end-user applications of the Microsoft Office suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, MapPoint, Publisher, Access, FrontPage, and InfoPath.
Add-in Express offers a strong solution architecture and a coherent programming model complemented by a combination of .net components, designers, and deployment tools that free users from the nightmare of tedious coding and ensures a quick and perfect result. Visual designers, wizards, modules, and components are available to 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.
This software fully supports all available Office versions, from 2000 to 2010, and Office suites, from Student to Enterprise, transparently. Add-in Express .NET is developed in C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), C#, and C++ in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010, as well as Delphi Prism. With its many features and simple user interface, Add-in Express is a worthwhile investment for anyone seeking to develop powerful Office extensions.
Version 2010:
Support for Office 2010 32-bit;
Support for Visual Studio 2010;
Support for VB.NET 2010 Express and C# 2010 Express;
Support for Delphi Prism 2011;
Complete support for InstallShield;
In-place designers for UI components;
Web-based MSI deployment
Version 2.4:
ADDED:
1 The setup project is automatically generated with the Add-in Express .NET Project Wizards on Visual Studio 2005.
2 Now Add-in Express .NET supports Borland Delphi 2006.
3 The following methods to the ADXAddinModule class: CallProxyMethod, GetProxyProperty, SetProxyProperty.
and many others.
Version 2.2.1751:
ADDED:
1. The Add function to the ADXCommandBarControlCollection and
ADXCommandBarPopupCollection classes.
2. The GetControlByTag function to the ADXCommandBarControlCollection and
ADXCommandBarPopupCollection classes.
3. The GetControlByControlTag function to the ADXCommandBarControlCollection and
ADXCommandBarPopupCollection classes.
4. Now the ADXOlExplorerCommandBar components saves its position even the temporary property
is set to true.
5. The CommandBarAdd function to the ADXAddinModule component.
6. The CommandBarObj property to the ADXCommandBarPopup component.
7. The InspectorAddCommandBars event to the ADXOutlookAppEvents component.
8. The ExplorerAddCommandBars event to the ADXOutlookAppEvents component.
9. The OlExplorerItemTypes property to the ADXCommandBarControl component;
10. The OlInspectorItemTypes property to the ADXCommandBarControl component;
11. The OlItemTypeAction property to the ADXCommandBarControl component;
12. The CommandBarByName method to the ADXAddinModule component.
13. The AsButton property to the ADXCommandBarControl component.
14. The AsPopup property to the ADXCommandBarControl component.
15. The AsEdit property to the ADXCommandBarControl component.
16. The AsComboBox property to the ADXCommandBarControl component.
17. The AsDropDownList property to the ADXCommandBarControl component.
CHANGED:
1. The type of the Owner property of the ADXBaseControlCollection class changed.
Now it is System.Object.
FIXED:
1. An exception that occurs when the user creates a new message in Outlook and
Word is set as an editor.
2. An exception that occurs when the user hasn't permitions to open a folder in Outlook.
3. An exception that occurs when the user opens an IMAP folder in Outlook.
4. ADX command bars are not loaded when Outlook starts in background.
5. The DisplayAlerts property doesn't work during the add-in installation.
Version 2.2:
ADDED:
1. The CurrentObjectChanged event to the ADXAccessAppEvents component.
2. The AccessIdle event to the ADXAccessAppEvents component.
3. The ConnectMode property to the ADXAddinModule component.
4. The DisconnectMode property to the ADXAddinModule component.
5. The SupportedApps property to the ADXCommandBar component.
6. Now you can build multi add-in assemblies. To do this you can use the Add New Item dialog box.
CHANGED:
1. Now Word add-ins store their command bars in the Normal.dot template.
2. IMPORTANT. Now an add-in is not registered when its solution is built.
To register/unregister the add-in use "Register COM Add-in"/"Unregister COM Add-in" items of
the Build menu.
FIXED:
1. Several design-time changes is not synchronized when add-in runs from Visual Studio.
1. An exception that occurs when Outlook opens a notes folder by default.
2. The Tag property of the ADXRTDTopic component is not public and visible.
OBSOLETE:
1. We announce that all Outlook events of the add-in module are obsolete.
They will be preserved public but not visible till the next major version.
Use the ADXOutlookAppEvents component instead of them.