To do this, you first need to add a new ADXRibbonTab component to the AddinModule designer surface.Īdd-in Express provides a rich designer for visually designing your MS Office ribbon tab. MS Project supports the Ribbon UI, which means you can add to and customize its Ribbon as you would the rest of the applications in the Office suite. Add-in enables you to support multiple MS Office applications with one codebase, but in this scenario we’ll only select Microsoft Project.įinish the wizard and if the designer surface of the AddinModule class is not visible in Visual Studio, double-click the file in the Solution Explorer to open it.
Next, select which MS Office applications your add-in will support. In this case we’ll only target MS Project 2013 and use Visual C# to develop our add-in.
On the first page of the “New Microsoft Office COM Add-in” wizard, select your programming language of choice (C#, VB.NET or C++.NET) and the minimum version of MS Project you would like your add-in to support. To create an add-in for MS Project, create a new ADX COM Add-in in Visual Studio.
In this article we’ll take a look at how to customize the MS Project UI, using the tried and trusted Add-in Express for Office and. Nevertheless, if you find yourself developing an add-in for MS Project, Add-in Express has you covered. I guess you could say this comes down to the fact that not as many people have MS Project installed and in turn there are not that many developers writing add-ins for it. Its object model does not feel quite as polished as the Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel object models. He is a Certified Accountant and a PMP (Project Manager Professional) and a PMI-RMP (Risk Manager Professional), MCP, MCT, and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist - Microsoft Project 2010.When it comes to developing add-ins for Microsoft Project you cannot be blamed for feeling that MS Project is a bit of a second-rate citizen in the MS Office suite of products. He is also a regular lecturer in the MS Community. Shares first place as the best lecturer of KulenDays 20 and PMI Conference 2009 in Zagreb. In addition, he was in TOP 10 lecturers at the MS SINERGY 2009 and MS VISIA 2009, 2010.
He was named the best lecturer of WINDAYS 2008 while his lecture was also voted as the best. He is a regular lecturer for Project Management in MS Innovation Center in Varaždin, Logosoft Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and SEAVUS GROUP in Skopje Macedonia. Today he works as a business consultant, adn Project Manager in PERPETUUM MOBILE d.o.o. He has got a lot of experience working with people in different business processes and also possesses great knowledge in information technologies and financial services. After completing his college he started working on projects in different business areas (banking, manufacturing, automotive industry, distribution, oil companies, etc.) developing and implementing ERP systems into different companies. Interests: Project Management and MS PROJECT