Developing a VSTO Addin for Outlook – Getting started A module or a solution module is a navigation module in Microsoft Outlook. It can let you expose your folder in a separate navigation pane just like other modules like Calendar, Tasks etc in Outlook. Then you can customize the folder Read more…
Microsoft outlook is hugely popular email application being used across so many organizations. There can be a no. of reasons why one would like to develop a plugin for it or integrate it with other applications. Microsoft makes it really easy to customize almost all aspect of Outlook using a Read more…
The CAPE-OPEN specifications are a set of standard interfaces that allows for an easy inter-operability between two process modelling environments and components. Let us say that we have written a custom implementation of a unit operation. There was no standard and uniform way of interfacing that unit operation with different process Read more…
If you want two network devices to talk to each other, then developing a TCP server and client is as low as you can get without blowing your brains off. It is really helpful in many scenarios. Come in handy when all other application layer protocols like HTTP, FTP etc Read more…
If you want two network devices to talk to each other, then developing a TCP server and client is as low as you can get without blowing your brains off. It is really helpful in many scenarios. Come in handy when all other application layer protocols like HTTP, FTP etc Read more…
Recently I faced a challenge of developing an excel plugin that can interact with a Java calculation server. The Java server was able to dynamically load JARs that contained all the calculations and make them available for invocation through a REST endpoints. If you wish to develop a Java server Read more…
Streams Imagine there is a large tank filled with water and there is small tap at the bottom through which water is coming out and this is called stream. You might not have any idea regarding the amount of water in the tank. The only thing you can work on Read more…
What is reverse proxy ? In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client, appearing as if they originated from the proxy server itself.[1] Unlike a forward proxy, which is an intermediary for its associated clients Read more…
A ClassLoader in Java helps in dynamically loading Java classes into the JVM. Java comes with a many different types of ClassLoader(s). However, many a times we are required to develop our own custom ClassLoader. Let us check how we can do that. In the following example, we will develop Read more…
We can easily develop cool XLA/XLAM addins using Excel’s native VBA editor, however, they are not enough in complex scenarios. In such scenarios, we would like to take full advantage of the .Net framework. Now there are several options when it comes to developing Excel addins using .Net and Visual Read more…