Add-in Express is the product line and trademark of Add-in Express Ltd. is a privately held company located in Homel, Belarus. Established in 1998, Add-in Express is the pioneer of tools and solutions in the Microsoft Office integration industry.

It provides a number of programming toolkits for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express developers that allow extending the above mentioned applications with custom functionality. The distinctive feature of all Add-in Express products is a component-centric programming model and a set of visual designers and components that enable developers to create all types of customizations (COM add-ins, smart tags, Excel real-time data servers (RTD servers), Excel Automation Add-ins and Excel user defined functions (UDFs) in a RAD way without coding their graphical user interface (GUI), in that way lessening programming efforts in automation of MS Office objects and handling their events as well as in research, prototyping, and debugging. Add-in Express Ltd.

is Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and CodeGear Technology Partner. Add-in Express was first released in 2002 as a VCL library for creating COM add-ins in Delphi. It hid all straits of low-level programming by implementing the IDTExtensibility2 interface and provided GUI management including the creation of command bars and command bar controls.

At that time Add-in Express supported COM add-ins for five main Microsoft Office applications, namely Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. Later Add-in Express started supporting FrontPage and Project. After Office XP had been published, the Smart Tags and Excel Real-Time Data servers technologies were added to Add-in Express.

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