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• The Small Things: How to Show the Color Categories in Outlook

  In an add-in for Outlook that I’m developing I wanted to show the built in Color Categories dialog so that the user could choose categories in a familiar way. The categories should be set on an object that is unique for the add-in (aka not for a mail Read More... Posted den 11 augusti 2010 17:26 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things, .NET 3.0, Office, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0

• Programmatically Update a ClickOnce Distributed Office Add-in

  When using ClickOnce for distributing an Office Add-in the default configuration is to check for updates every 7 days. In an add-in I built I have situations where the add-in must be up to date (for example when changing the WCF service interface). In Read More... Posted den 25 juli 2010 13:00 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Office, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0

• The Beauty of ClickOnce Deployment of Office Solutions

  Three years ago (can’t believe it’s been so long) I blogged about creating an Outlook add-in. The add-in was developed with VSTO 2, but now I thought it was time to upgrade it to VSTO 3 and try out the ClickOnce deployment. If I was impressed about how Read More... Posted den 1 februari 2010 14:34 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, Office, .NET 3.5

• PDC08: Keynote (day 2, part 2)

  Silverlight Silverlight 2.0 has today been downloaded about 100 miljon times and the upgrade process has just started. It will be possible to run Ssilverlight out of the browser and not only in the browser as today. There will be a Silverlight toolkit Read More... Posted den 29 oktober 2008 00:53 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Office, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, Cloud computing

• TechEd: Keynote

  TechEd keynote this year is presented by S. Somasegar (Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, Microsoft) and we've got some great seating not far from the stage (super early bid benefit). Announcment: Microsoft Sync Framework CTP Software Read More... Posted den 5 november 2007 15:32 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System, Tools, .NET 3.0, Office, .NET 3.5

• Redrawing Issues With Outlook 2007

  I always gets redrawing issues with Outlook 2007 when I've used my Vista laptop after a week or so. The thing is that Outlook stops updating the screen and/or views are drawn incorrectly or incomplete. Ryan now confirms this issues in his post Outlook Read More... Posted den 4 september 2007 09:53 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Office

• Custom Task Panes in Outlook 2007

  So far, all my Outlook add-in posts have covered different aspects of gathering data from the user. It would also be nice if the user could get some nice presentation of this data, making it worthwhile putting it in. For this I have chosen to implement Read More... Posted den 18 februari 2007 22:48 by ericqu | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Office

• Form Regions in Outlook 2007 (Part 2)

  My previous post started to explore the possibility to add form regions to the built-in Outlook forms and this post will continue where I left off. Handling the State of the Form Region For the fields in the form region to do anything useful we need to Read More... Posted den 14 februari 2007 19:52 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Office

• Form Regions in Outlook 2007 (Part 1)

  [UPDATE 2008-01-16: Today I finally got some time to verify that the GetFormRegionManifest method gets called according to Andrews comment below. It is great that this have been fixed so that you are not dependent on any external files, but rather can Read More... Posted den 13 februari 2007 21:32 by ericqu | 7 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Office

• Expose TFS Work Items in Outlook

  This post will continue my exploration of programming Outlook 2007, by showing how to get information from Team System Foundation Server (TFS). The idea is that in the option page (I bloged about it here ) you set up projects that you want to keep track Read More... Posted den 31 januari 2007 11:09 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System, Office

• Adding a Property Page to Outlook 2007 Options Dialog

  Last week I promised to blog a little about my experience to do an add-in for Outlook 2007. In this post I will show an example of how to add a property page to the Options dialog. The result looks something like this (in swedish): The first thing to Read More... Posted den 22 december 2006 12:21 by ericqu | 18 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Office

• General Experience with Outlook 2007 Add-in Development

  I've been doing an add-in for Outlook 2007 during my spare time, since Office 2007 and VSTO 2 SE was released. The add-in is supposed to help me to have control over how I spend my time and ease my administration. We use Excel templates for monthly time Read More... Posted den 13 december 2006 09:12 by ericqu | 7 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, Team System, Office

• Office 2007 Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

  It's available since yesterday in case you missed it ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx ). Read More... Posted den 13 november 2006 21:51 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: Office

• It's Office Time!

  I think the time has come when we should stop produce reports in SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Reports and other reporting products. Now I believe is the right time for us as developers to start using Microsoft Office much more. With the soon Read More... Posted den 26 oktober 2006 13:05 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: Design, Reporting Services, Office