Create Office add-in in .NET
Develop plug-in for Outlook, Excel, Word in VB.NET, C#, C++
Add-in Express for Office and .NET is your all-in-one framework for developing commercial class extensions for all main applications and all versions of the Microsoft Office suite, from 2000 through 2019.
With an array of visual designers, components and Visual Studio project templates you can quickly create all sorts of Microsoft Office customizations including COM Add-ins, Outlook plug-ins, Excel XLLs, UDFs and RTD Servers, from a prototype to the final release.
Take your add-in development to another level
- Office COM Add-ins
- Excel XLL
- RTD servers
- Automation add-ins
- Smart tags
- Write a single code base to support all Office versions, from 2000 to 2019.
- Develop version-independent add-ins with no application-specific solutions, no version-specific projects, no shared assemblies.
- Selective version independence - all you need to do is specify the minimum version of Microsoft Office you want to support.
- You use an array of components and visual designers to create any UI elements such as the Office Ribbon, Toolbars and Backstage View.
- You can design your Office extension's UI without a single line of code to deliver the proof of concept in no time.
- You don't need to worry about hand coding any plumbing code, focus on building your solution!
- Advanced regions are shared, they may contain one or more forms created by one or several add-ins.
- You can embed your regions into any Outlook form or view, add to the Navigation pane, Folder view pane, Reading pane or To-Do bar.
- Your regions can be dragged between Outlook panes, hidden or minimized.
- Your regions can be highlighted and bound to specified Outlook folders, content or context.
- Advanced task panes are version-neutral - they work on Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2019 - 2000.
- Your custom task panes can be shared, i.e. they may contain one and more forms created by one or several add-ins.
- Custom Office task panes can be dragged between four docks or fixed in one of the docks.
- Custom Office task panes can be hidden or minimized or highlighted.
- Windows Installer based setup projects
- ClickOnce deployment
- MSI-based web-deployment
- InstallShield and WiX setup projects
- Per-user and per-machine installations
- Corporate deployment
Customers say
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Originally, we had considered starting from scratch, but it did not take long for us to realize the benefit of going with Add-in Express. The results have been all we had hoped for, plus much more.
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This toolkit exceeded my expectation, even after watching your videos and seeing how the add-ins were created, and I had a working add-in with all the features I had hoped to add within 24-48 hours!
With Add-in Express I was able to focus on the core functionality of my application
built a previous add-in from scratch and ended up spending a ton of time getting the basic COM add-in functions working correctly. With Add-in Express this was automatic and I was able to focus on the core functionality of my application.
System requirements
Supported IDEs:
- Visual Studio 2019
- Visual Studio 2017
- Visual Studio 2015
- Visual Studio 2013
- Visual Studio 2012
- Visual Studio 2010
Supported languages:
- Visual Basic (VB.NET)
- C#
- C++.NET
Supported applications:
- Excel 2000 - 2019
- Outlook 2000 - 2019
- Word 2000 - 2019
- PowerPoint 2000 - 2019
- Access 2000 - 2019
- Project 2000 - 2019
- Publisher 2003 - 2019
- Visio 2002 - 2019
- OneNote 2010 - 2016
- InfoPath 2007 - 2013
- FrontPage 2000 - 2003
- MapPoint 2002 - 2013
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