add-in

I've been experimenting with building an Outlook 2010 addin in C#, using Visual Studio 2008. I am able to obtain a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.DocumentClass object from a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector object, which represents the e-mail being currently edited. I understand that this DocumentClass is used in various other contexts too (usually for Microsoft Word extensions, unsurprisingly). That class helpfully has a property called WordOpenXML , which seems to be an XML representation of all the files constituting the the .docx package which would be saved to disk when saving

I am writing a Visual Studio template wizard. And to debug it I have it start a new instance of Visual Studio 2010. My Visual Studio 2010 takes a good while to start up. I believe that this is due the the add-ins and extensions that I have installed for visual studio. I would rather not go disable them all (I really like them). So I was hoping there was a way to disable them via the command line. Just run a clean Visual Studio instance. Is there a way to do that? MikeG Try safemode devenv.exe /safemode which Starts Visual Studio in safe mode, and loads only the default environment and services

is there an Add-In which allows me to tag or mark files in Visual Studio and then these files are visual highlighted (eg. different background color) ? I searched the Visual Studio Gallery but didn't find anything. Thanks! I found the extension Visual Studio Tags on codeplex that can do what we need, but there's not (yet) visual support (ie, diferent colors in solution explorer). To highlight only the active (open and viewed) item in the solution explorer (without any add-ins): Go to Tools -> Options -> Projects And Solutions Then Check the Track Active Item in Solution Explorer option. But if

After some heavy googling, I've concluded that I'm unable to locate information on the id names for the different components of the ribbon in Office. For instance, even though the following XML works, I need to hide the add-in error display due to TabMail being at fault when a new email is being created. It's my understand that it's because I currently target all windows in Outlook but should be only targeting the main one. When a new email is being created, my add-in tries to insert itself in there too failing and complaining. <ribbon> <tabs> <tab idMso="TabMail"> <group id="Animals" label=

(Please forgive my ignorance on Excel add-ins, and feel free to correct my teminology where appropriate.) I have an Excel add-in that is used regularly. This add-in inserts a toolbar with a number of buttons. I want to automate the task of opening a spreadsheet in Excel and then "clicking" one of those buttons. In other words, I want to use Perl (or the command line) to activate a particular function of this add-in. I do not have immediate access to the source code for the add-in, but I should be able to request specific information such as procedure names if required. I cannot use CPAN

I am developing an Add-in for MS Word 2010 and I want to add a couple of menu items to the right click menu (only when some text is selected). I have seen a couple of examples to add items but couldn't find how to add items conditionally. In short I want to override something like OnRightClick handler. Thanks in advance. This is quite simple, you need to handle the WindowBeforeRightClick event. Inside the event locate the required command bar and the specfic control and handle either the Visible or the Enabled property. In the example below I toggle the Visible property of a custom button