Questions tagged [customtaskpane]
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Implement a point highlighting a line of text in CustomTaskPanes
I have asked a question about CustomTaskPanes. It seems that we can implement lots of things inside a pane.
I think it is totally feasible to have a pane to display a program (in VBA or in other languages) or a text, my question is if it is possible…

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Is there a way to add more options to the Custom Task Pane Options Menu Via VSTO?
I have a custom task pane in MS Word. I want to add a few more options to the options menu i.e.the arrow next to the cross button that has the move and close options. Is such a thing possible?

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DataGridView Handle OnHandleCreate Resetting Selected Rows
We have an Microsoft EXCEL COM Addin that creates a TaskPane for the user. Based on the "plug-in" that the user loads, the TaskPane is populated with a corresponding UserControl and then displayed on the screen.
These UserControls typically involve…

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CustomTaskPane Visibility in Outlook
I have a custom TaskPane in Outlook. When the user toggles the visibility, I record it in the settings object so that the next time Outlook starts it will be shown/hidden as the user left it.
CustomTaskPane.VisibleChanged is raised in each of the…

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Custom Task Pane Office(Excel) many times slide to open on Excel 2013
I created my own Excel Addin and after clicking the button displays a Custom Task Pane on right. Everything is fine but when I run this addin in Excel 2013. This displays Custom Task Panes with slide it open.For my Addin Flashes disappear and…

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Sharing singleton WebBrowser control - need to make specific instance active
I am using a WebBrowser control as part of an Excel Task Pane. We do not want to create a new one for every workbook created (this is in Excel 2013 where each workbook gets its own task pane) and try to keep them synced, so we have the task pane…

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Scroll bars for Excel CustomTaskPane developed using VSTO
I have an add-in, developed using VSTO, that displays a custom task pane in Excel. This custom task pane holds a user control containing tree-view and other controls. I enabled AutoScroll for the user control and can see the traditional windows…

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CustomTaskPane doesn't show up for win 7, does on dev machine
I've built an EXCEL 2013 Add In. This is running on my development machine successfully. I am able to install this add-in using the Click-Once deployment on this same machine. In general this add-in runs perfectly on my machine, no matter if I am…

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How to access calendar exceptions for resources - Office Add-in development, Microsoft Project
I'm trying to make an Office taskpane app, that can access a resources calendar exceptions, and display them to the user.
I managed to access the resources, I can get a lot of its fields, but not the calendar exceptions. It seems like, those are…

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How to access the CustomTaskPanes property aof a VSTO AddIn from a shared library?
I am building an AddIn for Word, Excel, PowerPoint. This AddIn comes with a ribbon. Whenever the user clicks a button on the ribbon a custom task pane is opened on the side. Since I do not want to rewrite the same code in three different projects I…

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Display HTML page in Office 2003 or 2007 task pane via VBA
Is it possible to display an HTML page in an Office 2003 and/or 2007 task pane via VBA?
Background: We have a complicated configuration file that our users maintain in Word (using a real editor is not an option for our audience).
We would like to…

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How to add a custom task pane to Visual Studio
I am creating an add-in for Visual Studio 2012. I want to create a custom task pane that I could fill with files and folders that could be selected and opened by a developer. I have found a lot of documentation on how to create add-ins with task…

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AddInExpress install error - AddCustomTaskPanes
When I install a AddInExpress addin and open Excel I get this error:
Exception Source:
Exception Type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
Exception Message: Unable to create specified ActiveX control.
Exception Target Site:…

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Remove Excel taskpane close button using VB.NET VSTO
I believe the the title says it all. Does anybody know how to remove the close button of task-pane in Excel using VSTO (VB.NET)?

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ExcelDna CustomTaskPane Example Exception
I tried to use CustomTaksPane example from ExcelDNA package and got the following error:
"An exception occurred while calling function "OnShowTCP". The exception message is
Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation"
I use Excel 2010…

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