This morning, while talking with a prospect, they told me that a competing vendor told them they would add a feature that would let them import emails into their software in a fairly unique way. My response? Of COURSE we can do that too!
What I didn't tell them was that I didn't know jack or squat about Outlook add-ins.
Enter Add-Iin Express (http://www.add-in-express.com/). Less than four hours later, I had a fully integrated add-in which did exactly what the client wanted. Sure, it could use some spit shine, but man were they impressed when I showed it to them this afternoon. It may even get us the contract.
Did I mention that I didn't require any support or assistance, and did everything based on the manual and demos from the website? No? Well, that's a pretty big deal for me. :-)
So, if you need to integrate with Outlook, or with MS Office in general, check out this product. It's amazing. Kudos to Eugene and the crew at Afalina. They've done a great job.
> This morning, while talking with a prospect, they told me that a competing > vendor told them they would add a feature that would let them import > emails into their software in a fairly unique way. My response? Of COURSE > we can do that too!
> What I didn't tell them was that I didn't know jack or squat about Outlook > add-ins.
> Enter Add-Iin Express (http://www.add-in-express.com/). Less than four > hours later, I had a fully integrated add-in which did exactly what the > client wanted. Sure, it could use some spit shine, but man were they > impressed when I showed it to them this afternoon. It may even get us the > contract.
> Did I mention that I didn't require any support or assistance, and did > everything based on the manual and demos from the website? No? Well, > that's a pretty big deal for me. :-)
> So, if you need to integrate with Outlook, or with MS Office in general, > check out this product. It's amazing. Kudos to Eugene and the crew at > Afalina. They've done a great job.
> So, if you need to integrate with Outlook, or with MS Office in > general, check out this product. It's amazing. Kudos to Eugene and the > crew at Afalina. They've done a great job.
I Agree.
I have been using Add-In Express for one year and it is fantastic.
I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still don't understand what practical applications could be built with them. Anyone care to comment?
Ed Dressel wrote: > I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still don't > understand what practical applications could be built with them. Anyone care > to comment?
I did a couple of Office Add-ins using VB - which eases things quite a bit - but still they were DARN complicated to do.
AddInExpress, instead, claims(didn't try it for myself) such process to become much easier. I haven't tried them, but if they only ease the process by - say - 30% that's surely worth the value.
The most complex part of creating such add-ins for Office is the fact that there're *awful* COM complexities to deal with. Just adding a toolbar can be a real PITA, because you have to take care of so many things, avoiding to mess with the "Normal.dot" template and such beasts. Plus, while the previous run it seemed to work, the next for some reason might not work the same way :-( . It's one of the worst programming tasks possible.
>I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still don't >understand what practical applications could be built with them. Anyone >care to comment?
I just bought them this weekend and they are REALLY cool! We're working on a solutions that would allow the user to push things like emails and contacts from their Outlook into their MBS Navision ERP system. While ADX is only a small part of the project, it will definitly save us a lot of time using them..
>I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still don't >understand what practical applications could be built with them. Anyone >care to comment?
>I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still don't >understand what practical applications could be built with them. Anyone >care to comment?
Hello! You wrote on Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:43:45 -0800:
ED> I spent some time loking at their videos of online demos and still ED> don't understand what practical applications could be built with them. ED> Anyone care to comment?
With most things, unless you have a problem to solve, you don't understand what the solution is applied to. I.e. unless you have to make an Outlook add-in, you will unlikely find Add-In Express useful.
