Office Toolbars with .Net Controls

Toolbar Controls is a commercial class UI for your Office add-ins

The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office is an easy-to-use .NET component library that provides unique features for creating a commercial class UI in your Microsoft Office 2000 - 2007 solutions. Using the Toolbar Controls you can easily create sophisticated user interfaces found in today's most recognizable commercial Office plug-ins. The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office is built on our exclusive Add-in Express technology and based on true RAD approaches inherited from Microsoft shared technologies. It provides a fast and flexible way to program stable and powerful Office-based solutions.

The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office was architected from the ground up to overstep the limits of the existing technology and to deliver tomorrow’s solutions today. With the Toolbar Controls Office you get a complete freedom in creating the UI of your Microsoft Office based solutions.

Toolbar Controls enhances MS Office for developers

Microsoft Office 2000 - 2003 provides only five standard controls that can be added to a toolbar / commandbar - button (msoControlButton), edit box (msoControlEdit), combo box (msoControlComboBox), drop down list (msoControlDropdown) and pop-up (msoControlPopup). You can use the base Add-in Express to place these controls onto your command bar. However, the msoControlType enumeration includes much more toolbar controls used by Microsoft only.

On forums over the Net, a lot of Office developers ask more and more questions about using auto complete combo boxes, graphic combo boxes, expanding grids, images, msoControlActiveX and msoControlCustom in Office solutions. But there was no way to do this. To meet developers' needs we created the Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office. It is a .NET component library that allows Office developers to use any custom controls on their Office 2007 - 2000 toolbars.

Toolbar Controls extends Add-in Express

The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office is a plugin for Add-in Express based on the true RAD technology. It is ready-to-use in your Add-in Express projects immediately after installing. The Toolbar controls contains several special components, each of them enables .NET controls on command bars of one of Office applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc. Just add one of these components to your add-in module, create a custom .NET control, bind it to a commandbar and voila.

The Toolbar Controls extends Add-in Express

With Add-in Express you can:

• Develop COM add-ins for ten main Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access®, Microsoft Visio®, Microsoft Project, Microsoft FrontPage and other applications.
• Create your custom toolbars and toolbar items in Microsoft Outlook Explorer and Microsoft Outlook Inspector (message window).
• Control all Microsoft Outlook’s built-in commandbars /toolbars including context-sensitivity pop-ups.
• Create your own toolbars in Microsoft Excel, add command bar controls, handle Microsoft Excel events and "hook" any built-in toolbar controls.
• Use a lot of other Add-in Express features not mentioned here. 
  

The Toolbar Controls extends Add-in Express
The Toolbar Controls extends the functionality of Add-in Express and makes possible to add any .NET controls (button, grid, tree view, label, image, user control etc.) to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint commandbars (toolbars).

For example, for customizing a Microsoft Outlook commandbar, you can do the following:

• Add a DataGrid on a right-docked command bar of the Microsoft Outlook Explorer window to show all support incidents of the selected contact.
• Use a TreeView on a bottom-docked toolbar of the Microsoft Outlook e-mail window to provide a ticket-based support system.
• Place PictureBox, LinkLabel, TextBoxes and Memos onto a left-docked commandbar to show additional information for the opened contact on the Microsoft Outlook contact window.
• Extend the Standard toolbar on the Microsoft Outlook task window with a UserControl to show calendars, a task queue, and priority list for the current task.
  

COM Add-in host application

• Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007
• Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003
• Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003

Supported MS Office editions

• Student
• Home
• Standard
• Professional
• Professional Plus
• Ultimate
• Enterprise
• All Microsoft Office service packs and updates are supported