Just wondering, do I really have to use Visual Studio to create a simple add-in/toolbar in Outlook 2007? I created a simple toolbar with a button that opens a form. Then I created some macro code in there and run it clicking the button. But now I want to save this thing and deploy it on other computers. How do I do such a thing?
Have a look at this article from MSDN Library. Its title is "Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Solution for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)"
Hope this helps
Giovanni
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I've installed Visual Studio on my private PC, the version is "Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019", version 16.1.6.
In order to prepare a job interview, I'd like to do some basic MFC/AFX programming, starting by the basic CMapStringToString example from the Microsoft website.
This, however, seems not to work, as I don't have access to the mentioned file afxcoll.h. Indeed: there is no file, called afx*.h on my PC.
Is this a limitation of my free downloaded Visual Studio installation, or is there any add-in, add-on, extension or whatever I can install in order to work with CMapStringToString objects?
Thanks in advance
You need to explicitly install MFC support in Visual Studio - which you can do on Community editions:
Open Visual Studio Installer from your Start Menu
Click the Modify button
Select the Individual Components tab
Scroll down to SDKs, Libraries and frameworks
Check the various MFC/ATL options for various platforms
I'm working on a C# application that (among others) needs to be able to add new entries into an Outlook Calender.
After looking up how to do this in Visual Studio , I found that this isn't possible in the Express version , that I was using , because of the missing templates.
But now I'm using Visual Studio Community. I've tried to use this code from MSDN but that doesn't seem to work. Am I missing an import ? Or are Office add-ins also not supported in VS Community , like they were in VS Express ?
If so , is my best option still to use Add-in Express ? Or am I overlooking something else ?
The Community edition of Visual Studio 2013 corresponds to the Professional one. So, you can use VSTO for developing Office add-ins. You just need to install Office dev tools.
See Walkthrough: Creating Your First Application-Level Add-in for Outlook to get started developing an Outlook add-in.
Finally, you may consider a VSTO based add-in as a regular .Net application where you can use all BCL classes and third-party components.
I can find samples which are created for VS 2005 and that are not running under vs2010.
Can I find some sample outlook add in projectes for VS2010 using C#.
Check out Walkthrough: Creating Your First Application-Level Add-in for Outlook.
I've done some mucking around on Google but I still can't find what project this would be in Visual Studio. I want to create a GUI add in for Excel, for example a dock window on a ribbon with a windows form. What project would this be in Visual Studio? I have tried Excel add in but I don't know if this has the GUI component I'm looking for.
Microsoft offers you "Visual Studio Tools for Office" (VSTO) for this purpose, see here for more information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Office#External_links
But if you want a more lightweight solution, and you need it only for Excel, I suggest you have a look at Excel DNA
http://exceldna.codeplex.com/
This is freeware, mature, works even with the Express editions of Visual Studio and different from VSTO you can combine every supported .NET version with every Excel version and every Visual Studio version you like. I have created some Excel addins with Excel DNA on my own, and I love it.
Can i use sharepoint server 2007 with Visual Studio 2010?, Is there any issue about it to pay attention to?
Yes you can. And you can use WSPBuilder also.
Issue with Workflows
There is an issue with Workflows however. If you create SharePoint workflow, you cannot add SharePoint workflow items from toolbox, they are greyed out.
A workaround is to manually add required element by editing .designer file and then you have that element in the Designer with which you can afterwards interact normally.