Add-In Express Microsoft Office and .NET Standard

Add-in Express for Office and .NET is the only all-in-one platform that includes all the features you may expect for your Microsoft Office extensions such as Office COM add-ins, smart tags, Excel XLLs, RTD servers and Automation add-ins (UDFs). It fully supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008 and makes it very comfortable for developing application-level extensions for all available Office versions from 2000 to 2007 (plus beta-support for Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010).

No routine coding – concentrate on your ideas and customers
Add-in Express empowers you with a strong solution architecture and coherent programming model complemented by a combination of .net components, visual designers and deployment tools that will help you avoid a nightmare of monotonous coding and ensure a quick and perfect result. With Add-in Express you forget all routine things such as implementing Extensibility COM interfaces or XML-schemas, working with the registry, creating deployment scenarios, etc. You simply concentrate all your efforts on your ideas and applied code and amaze your customers with a promptly created prototype and subsequent releases.

Microsoft Office extensibility
Add-in Express is completely based on the Office extensibility technology and extends it with unique features which makes your Office development fast, easy and effective. You can develop all kinds of Office extensions including COM add-ins, smart tags, Excel RTD servers, Automation add-ins and XLLs.

Version-neutrality and edition independence
Add-in Express provides you with version-neutral run-time, so you needn't write code for each Office version. Your write your code once, and it runs on all Office versions, from 2000 to 2007. In addition, your solutions are fully compatible with all Office editions, from Student and Home to Enterprise and Ultimate.

Effective project architecture
Add-in Express generates ready-to-use solution templates based on our long-term experience in development and deployment of Office solutions. The Add-in Express architecture makes your Office solutions secure, isolated, managed, deployable and updatable with your minimal efforts.

Visual designers instead of coding
You use visual designers to customize Office menus, toolbars, ribbons, task panes, forms, windows, regions, option and property pages, etc. Add-in Express gives you the True RAD way, so you use components and visual designers instead of routine writing of glue code.

Outlook is the premium platform
Outlook developers benefit from a plenty of Outlook-related features. Using Add-in Express components and their visual designers you can make your Outlook menus, toolbars, ribbons or certain controls context sensitive, bind them to specified folders or content types, build option and folder property pages, add navigation pane shortcuts, embed view and form regions and more.

Supported Microsoft Office applications

• COM Add-in host applications
• Microsoft Excel 2000 and higher
• Microsoft Outlook 2000 and higher
• Microsoft Word 2000 and higher
• Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and higher
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 and higher
• Microsoft Access 2000 and higher
• Microsoft Project 2000 and higher
• Microsoft MapPoint 2002 and higher
• Microsoft Visio 2002 and higher
• Microsoft Publisher 2003 and higher
• Microsoft InfoPath 2007

Supported MS Office editions

• Student
• Home
• Standard
• Professional
• Professional Plus
• Ultimate
• Enterprise

All Microsoft Office service packs and updates are supported.