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POEditor: An Excellent Translation Tool!

It’s very exceptionable that I get thrilled over a software. The last time must be the first version of Excel 2.1d, that’s nearly 30 ago, I got in my hand! I can only say that it’s an excellent software and it’s also free. It’s so good that I say its speak for itself. The URL to POEditor [...] Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 10:27 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, UI Design, SQL Server, Excel, XLLs, Installation Tools, Valentina DB, Valentina Office Server, Apps for Office, Database, Spreadsheet components, VMWare

Black clouds over MS Office 2013

I’m getting worried over what’s going on. For every new version of Office and Excel there has been a positive tone in the online community and an excitement with the new features. But that’s not really true with MS Office 2013. The terms to use a license shrink and some features are no longer available in some [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2013 9:47 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, Apps for Office

Ninja WinRT Database Released

For the larger group of developers the vendor Kellerman Software may be an unknown vendor. Time to change it. For the last couple of years I have been using components for developing managed COM solutions for MS Excel. The components are great and do the work well. Now Kellerman Software has released their first version [...] Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2013 2:41 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, Database

Support for Small Business by Microsoft

I’m happy to inform that Microsoft is developing and expand their services and support to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). From my point of view this is most welcoming as this group of companies have been sidestepped for some time now by Microsoft, in favour to the group of enterprises. I know that professional MS [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2012 12:29 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, Articles, Small Business

COM Add-ins & Excel 2013: Important News

In case You wonder; VB6, aka classic VB, is still in use Developing VB6 based COM add-ins is still an option, especially when targeting Excel 2000 and onforward. Microsoft has reported that Office 2013 does not include an important dependency file, Add-in Designer Object Library (msaddndr.dll). If You use the Shared COM Add-in template then [...] Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2012 9:03 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, Excel

Tools for MS Excel 2013 Development

I just want to add an article that gives the URLs for downloading the SDK and the Toolkit for Apps for Office with Visual Studio 2012. It’s not easy to keep up the pace and find the required tools so this is also a reminder to myself. Download: Excel 2013 SDK: Excel 2013 XLL Software [...] Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2012 7:12 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, XLLs, Apps for Office

Axialis Pure Flat 2013 Toolbar Stock Icons Rock!

A software program’s success is usually depended on its functionality, i.e. it does the work and it has a user-friendly UI. In fact, the UI is the most important part of applications as that is what the end-users see and work via. This is something we all known (or at least should know). Among the [...] Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2012 7:00 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, UI Design, Excel, XLLs, Real Basic Developing

VS 2012: A disaster for VSTO Developers?

I thought I would get on with the blog much faster than I have done. Visual Studio (VS) 2012 has been out now for some time but still it’s ‘a new kid in town’. First I thought I would make some kind of a walkthrough for the news in VS however I ended up turning down [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2012 3:33 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, Apps for Office

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010

Microsoft have recently released a new version of its excellent tool, PowerPivot, for Excel 2010. It can be downloaded from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 Kind regards, Dennis Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2012 6:43 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, SQL Server, Excel, PowerPivot Books

New SQL Server 2012 Tools for MS Excel 2010

Microsoft has recently released a new version of their toolkit Data Mining for MS Excel. It’s for SQL Server 2012 and explicit target MS Excel 2010. To download it click on the following text: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Excel 2010 In addition, Microsoft has released a new version of their PowerPivot tool [...] Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2012 6:48 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, SQL Server, Excel

Add-in Express vs Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

I recently stoped by at Add-in Express and noticed an interesting series of articles that compare their RAD-tool with VSTO. You may read themselves at the following URLs: Add-in Express vs. Visual Studio Tools for Office Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Version neutrality for your Office extensions Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Visual designers for Office Ribbon [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2012 5:15 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel, visual studio tools, rad tool, visual studio tools for office

From VBA to VB.NET using ExcelDna

This is a notification about a recent published article by Patrick O’Beirne on his blog. Patrick has compiled a list of resources, for native Excel developers, to develop User Defined Functions (UDFs) with ExcelDna in VB.NET. For some years ago several developers in the online Excel community made quite often critical comments and rant a lot about using .NET [...] Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2012 6:25 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, Excel, XLLs

Best Practices Export Data to Excel

If You’re a VBA Developer You should know what best practices is to export data to MS Excel. Two expressions summarize it; Microsoft ActiveX Data Object Library and CopyFromRecordset. However, if You’re a .NET developer and face a situation where You must find a solution to export data to MS Excel then there is a [...] Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2012 7:43 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, SQL Server, Developer sites, Excel, SQLite, Valentina DB, Valentina Office Server

MSDN English Forum Assistant (Gadget)

During the summer Microsoft released a new tool, MSDN English Forum Assistant. It’s a gadget tool and it provides us with a shortcut to MSDN forums, i.e. we don’t need to use any web browser. The tool targets all visitors and makes it easy to ask questions, monitor threads or forums, access FAQs and search for knowledge. I have been using [...] Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2011 11:20 AM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: Tools, .NET & Excel, Excel, Search Tools

Help & Manual – A Help Authoring Tool

In the past it was not common that small tools, for instance add-ins to MS Excel, included any help at all. Many developers thought that their utilities were, more and less, self-explanatory. Today we have become more professional in that almost all kind of tools include help or pointers to sites where the help is [...] Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 9:02 PM by VSTO & .NET & Excel

Filed under: COM Add-ins, Tools, .NET & Excel, VSTO & Excel, Excel

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