Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net

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Easily develop managed, secure, isolated, version-neutral and deployable plugins for Outlook Express and Windows Mail. Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net gives you a unified extensibility model based on familiar interfaces and objects of Microsoft Office and Outlook, visual designers for customizing Outlook Express menus and toolbars, advanced view and form regions and more. Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net is developed in Visual C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), C# and C++ in Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, as well as RemObjects Chrome.

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Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net 2008.4.1

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Main features

Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net employs the Microsoft Office COM Add-in technology for Outlook Express extensions. By choosing Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net you gain familiar techniques and features including the IDTExtensibility2 interface, the "main" Outlook windows architecture, the CommandBars collection for accessing menus and toolbars (command bars), and a unified object model.

Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net adds to each Outlook Express project a special module, the add-in module, which has a visual designer and serves as a container for other Outlook Express specific components such as toolbars, menus, controls and OE event components. This module and its designer centralize the general logic of your add-in, and empower you to extend the Outlook Explorer GUI with custom toolbars and menus with a couple of clicks. 

With Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net you can:

• Add custom menu items to the main Outlook Express menu and Inspector menus.
• Build custom toolbars for the main OE window and mail windows.
• Use simple, pop-up, dropdown, split buttons and separators on your toolbars.
• Create regions for the Preview pane.
• Develop view and form regions for the main Outlook Express window, mail compose and read windows.
• Build regions for the Folder List, Contacts pane and Outlook Bar.

Key benefits

• Ability to create version-independent plug-ins. With Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net, you write your code once and have it work in Outlook Express 6 on Windows 2000 and XP and in Windows Mail on Vista.
• Add-in Express for Outlook Express and Microsoft .net reflects the Outlook Object Model to Outlook Express and, in that way, lets you benefit from your experience in Outlook development. You use Outlook-like objects and events when accessing Outlook Express.
• A dedicated loader isolates each add-in into its own AppDomain. Now you can build managed, easily deployable and secure extensions for Outlook Express that extend its GUI and automate its objects.
• Project templates. They comprise all necessary functionality for developing Outlook Express plugins and centralize all technology-specific components through visual designers and modules. You use visual designers and Outlook Express-related components instead of routine coding to customize Outlook Express menus and toolbars and handle Outlook Express events.
• Component-centric programming model. Special components of Add-in Express make your coding productive, and your add-ins feature-rich and effective.
• Setup projects created automatically. To each Outlook Express solution, Add-in Express adds a special setup project based on the built-in Visual Studio technology.

The Premium Edition includes:

• Fully functional copy of Add-in Express
• One lifetime license
• Run-time source code
• Design-time source code
• Custom toolbars for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• Custom menu items for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• Custom form regions for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• A complete set of Outlook Express and Windows Mail events
• 100% compatibility and maintainability assurances
• 12 months minor updates subscription
• 12 months technical support service subscription
• 12 months new major versions subscription
• 12 months priority technical support service
• 12 months new products subscription
• 12 months solution research service subscription
• 12 months live support service subscription

The Standard Edition includes:

• Fully functional copy of Add-in Express
• One lifetime license
• Custom toolbars for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• Custom menu items for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• Custom form regions for Outlook Express and Windows Mail
• A complete set of Outlook Express and Windows Mail events
• 100% compatibility and maintainability assurances