Currently I'm storing the settings for my custom addins in the registry but this seems like a kludge. I was wondering if there was an official place to store add-in settings. My preference would be to store them where Visual studio stores settings so they can be exported and imported easily. Is it possible to store add-in settings with...
Hi, Currently we developed a VB macro for word. While we tried to use it on mac it failed with message "VB Macro not supported in mac". Is there a way to c# office add-in for mac? My requirement is to have a simple utility to add comments(read from user) to the selected text in the current word document. Also need the functionality of th...
Hi all. Just developed a outlook addin, but now i am trying to create a setup project. i follow the tutorial from http://www.supinfo-projects.com/en/2006/add_in_outlook_2007_en/introduction/ , but when i try to install a error occurred ( Error 1001. Cannot set the security policy. --> Cannot create the security code group 'OutlookPanel'....
I am attempting to write a Visual Studio 2010 add-in for Team Explorer that adds a root node, just underneath each project. This root node should not have any children, and no context menu, just a double-click action. I have used the samples provided here to create a folder node, with leaf nodes underneath. The leaf nodes I can make do a...
I am using Visual Studio 2010 with Visual Studio Tools for Office installed. I will be interfacing with Word through its PIA. My target Word version is at least 2003. Muhimbi has informed me that Save as PDF isn't available in 2003 so what I would like to do is check if it's available in the version installed (2003 and later) and then...
I created a Sidebar in Excel using WPF, and trying to drag some some objects from the WPF Pane to the spreadsheet. The Application object in WPF is null. Please guide me how to Achieve this Drag-Drop simple text from WPF Excel Addin to The spreadsheet. Thanks in Advance ...
I have a Excel addin written in C# that has some Copy/Paste processing code. When the user copies, I want to put my own TableData class object on the clipboard and retrieve it back when the user paste the data on the worksheet. Sounds real simple and I found a dozen articles online but for some reason it is not working in my code. Here ...
I want to configure the Visual Studio toolbox each time the user switches between documents in the editor. For that purpose I implemented an add-in with the following method, which is called upon activation of a document window: private void ConfigureToolbox() { EnvDTE.ToolBoxTab myTab = GetTab("My Tab"); // fix for VS bug (see...
I have a VSTO addin, which works fine. I am trying to give it a plugin-loading mechanism so that others can add plugins to my plugin. I sounds horrific, I know, but it seems to best option for now. I publish my addin to a folder called 'Published'. This creates the application manifest (Symbols.application) and also a folder called S...
Does anybody know weather VNC (RFB) supports virtual channels and add-ins to them like it is in the RDP (Microsoft Terminal Services)? I just want to transfer my own data across a VNC connection... ...
I have a MonoDevelop 2.4 Add-In that adds a suport of custom .NET-based language to IDE. It works fine - compiles, runs etc but i'm wondering how to implement a debugger support for it. Unfortunately MonoDevelop Add-In framework is not documented anyhow. Googling & disassembling MonoDevelop dlls with Reflector had no effect. If smb kno...
Hi All We have an Outlook Addin developed in VS2008 using VSTO. This works fine and loads as expected when Outlook is fired up, both in debug and compiled versions. The problem occurs if the user opens another instance of Outlook - our addin is not loaded into this instance. Any thoughts ? ...
A little background I'm working on an .net application that's uses plugins heavily, the application can request data from the plugins that is then sent back and displayed by the application. First I implemented the plugin framework in MEF but feel that it was a bit limited for my purposes, I wanted to be able to isolate plugins and hav...
Hello, I have a shared COM AddIn (not VSTO) for excel 2003, now I want to add a ribbon tab to support excel 2007. I did some research online. know that I need reference 2007 PIA, implement IDTExtensibility2, IRibbonExtensibility in my connection and IRibbonExtensibility has only one method string GetCustomUI() string IRibbonExten...
Wondering if anyone knows if the feature to allow add-in's for Visual Studio 2010 xml comment viewer was cut in the final release?? What I am talking about specifically is this: I took this image from this page on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd722812.aspx) I can't seem to find even one addin with this functionality,...
Hi, i am developing a outlook addin in c#, heres my startup: private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { //adds the new issueTopMenu //Search the menu and delete if found RemoveMenubar(); //adds the panel AddPanelToExplorer(); //Method to create new menu ...
I'm creating a small addin in the hopes of making it fun and easy to play with graphics in Visual Studio. There has been one small annoyance though, I can't seem to figure out how to attach my newly created window to the tab bar. It's all F#, but the solution should be just a couple of function calls so please feel free to use C# or VB...
I have created an Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 that opens up a form, using Form1.Show(this); If (while the form is open) the user opens/closes a Visual Studio dialog box, (such as Assembly Information) then the user cannot focus back on the form created by the addin. Is there something I'm missing to allow the user to return to the f...
Hi, I'm developing an advanced spellchecker for some language. MS Word's default spellchecker for that language is not satisfactory. So I decided to integrate my spellchecker with MS Word. Unfortunately I'm working on Java and as far as I see this is possible with Ms.Net. Is it possible to do same thing with Java or can use a my Java sp...
I am creating a C# winforms application targeting the .NET 3.5 framework. I want this program to be able to have plugins. Hopefully the plugins can be created in unmanaged C++. If there is no direct way to make a plugin in C++, then i would like the know the easiest plugin framework that would allow me to make a simple C# wrapper for ...