Add-in Express 2 .NET Edition

Programming, Visual Basic

Add-in Express is a tool for creating Microsoft Office COM add-ins in C#, VB, C++ and Delphi. Using it you can develop a single add-in that will run across the entire Office suite of applications – MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, FrontPage, MS Project, MapPoint and Visio.

Add-in Express hides complexity of implementing the IDTExtensibility2 interface that COM add-in architecture is based on. And using Add-in Express, add-in projects can be created by a couple of clicks. You create your own toolbars and place buttons, edit boxes, combo boxes, and pop-ups onto them. Add-in Express correctly handles hiding and deleting controls, as well as moving them to other toolbars. It also allows handling the controls` events. Use Delphi forms, standard controls and components to develop a COM add-in.

Quick Demo project includes a sample COM add-in for all supported apps that creates a number of toolbars and controls. You get the source code of the sample add-in where you see the use of Add-in Express classes as well as details of toolbar and control creation.