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Summary

Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO by Add-in Express

Develop Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005 and 2008 projects with less coding and debugging. Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO includes components and designers that let you customize Office interface with Ribbon tabs, Office Menu and Quick Access Toolbar items, as well as with traditional command bars and Action/Task Panes both in design and run-time. Outlook add-in developers get Outlook-specific command bars, option pages and the ability to embed custom .NET forms into Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows. Developed in C#, Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO supports VSTO 2005 (SE) and VSTO 2008, C# and Visual Basic .NET and Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, and InfoPath).

Main Features

Add-in Express simplifies and speeds up add-in development in VSTO 2005 (SE) and 2008. You can use Add-in Express components and their visual designers to:

Add and customize toolbars, menus and pop-ups for all Microsoft Office 2003 applications supported by VSTO 2005 (SE) and VSTO 2008 - Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath

Customize any existing (built-in) toolbars, menus, and pop-ups with your controls, items, and sub-menus on Office 2003 in a VSTO solution

Create custom ribbons, Office application menus, Quick Access Toolbar and custom task panes for Office 2007

Customize existing ribbons with your own ribbon tabs and tune up the Office 2007 Application Menu with your own sub-menus

Add custom keyboard shortcuts or override any existing keyboard shortcuts

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

Customize any Outlook views and any Outlook forms with your .NET forms

Completely replace Outlook views with your .NET forms (WinForms) like Outlook Today

Add custom property pages to Outlook dialogs: Folder Properties and Tools | Options

Add context-sensitivity to your command bars and commandbar controls, ribbon tabs, menus, and sub-menus. 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 command bars

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

The Premium Edition includes:

Fully functional copy of Add-in Express

One lifetime license

Run-time source code

Design-time source code

COM Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007

Outlook customization with the Advanced Outlook Regions

Advanced commandbar customization with .NET controls

100% compatibility and maintainability assurances

12 months minor updates subscription

12 months technical support service subscription

12 months new major versions subscription

12 months priority technical support service

12 months new products subscription

12 months solution research service subscription

12 months live support service subscription

The Standard Edition includes:

Fully functional copy of Add-in Express

One lifetime license

COM Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007

Outlook customization with the Advanced Outlook Regions

Advanced commandbar customization with .NET controls

100% compatibility and maintainability assurances

12 months minor updates subscription

12 months technical support service subscription

What's new in Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO 2008? - Version 2008 of Add-in Express for VSTO supports Microsoft Office 2007 and newly released Visual Studio 2008 and provides a plenty of new features and improvements, namely:

Microsoft Office 2007 is completely supported by the Add-in Express programming model and core. Now with Add-in Express you can customize Microsoft Office 2007 and support all its new features including the Ribbon UI, Quick Access Toolbar, Office Menu, and Task Panes. For all this Add-in Express provides several new components that replace manually prepared Ribbon-related XML with special visual designers.

100% compatibility and version-neutrality are second in importance major features included in version 2008. Add-in Express 2008 allows you to develop the user interface of your VSTO solution in all VSTO-supported Office versions (2003 and 2007). NEW FEATURE! Your add-ins developed for Office 2003 will show the Ribbon UI in Office 2007.

Advanced Outlook Form Regions empower you to develop a sophisticated GUI for your Outlook 2003 and 2007 plug-ins. Now you can use any .NET forms (WinForm) and controls on Outlook windows such as Outlook views, e-mail windows, task windows, appointment windows, navigation panes, to-do bars, etc.

Advanced Excel features enable you to create custom task panes in Excel 2003 and 2007.

PartNumbers: PC-517610-159077 517610-159077 PC-517610-159078 517610-159078 PC-517610-159081 517610-159081 PC-517610-159082 517610-159082 PC-517610-159079 517610-159079 PC-517610-159080 517610-159080

PurchaseOptions: Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO 2008.4 1 Developer License - Standard (includes 12 months minor updates and technical support service subscription) , Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO 2008.4 1 Developer License - Premium (includes Source code, 12 months minor and major updates and priority technical support service subscription) , Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO 2008.4 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Standard (includes 12 months minor updates and technical support service subscription) - Upgrade from Add-in Express for VSTO 2.x , Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO 2008.4 - Upgrades 1 Developer License - Premium (includes Source code, 12 months minor and major updates and priority technical support service subscription) - Upgrade from Add-in Express for VSTO 2.x , Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO - Subscription Renewals 1 Developer License - Standard Subscription Renewal , Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO - Subscription Renewals 1 Developer License - Premium Subscription Renewal

Resources: Read the Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO Manual - Requires Acrobat Reader, Read the Add-in Express for Microsoft VSTO License Agreement

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET Class

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Office 2003, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1

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