Comments on: Build an Excel Add-In 4 – Create the Dialog

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:34:26 +0000

Hello Jon!

Thanks for this excellent series of articles.
Hope #6 will be published soon.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:20:01 +0000

Thanks, Jan Karel. In a while I will have another post or two about designing dialogs, more general than this post. I’ll include tricks like your Toolbox enhancements, and also suggestions for good UI design.

By: Jan Karel Pieterse

Jan Karel Pieterse — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:00:49 +0000

One that is not very discoverable: You can drag (sets of) controls back onto the control toobox to store them for later re-use. NOte that you can right-click the toobox to add pages to it to store your own controls.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:35:35 +0000

Mathias -

Right, tab order is important. So are accelerator keys. Perhaps a followup article could cover these aspects of good user interface design.

And by the way, I would like to see your VSTO article.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:15:58 +0000

Hi Jon,

First, I think it’s great that you are going through with this tutorial from A to Z! I might give a shot at doing the same for VSTO.

Then, just one small addition: when adding controls to a user from, it’s a good idea to check the TabOrder property, which determines in what order each control gets the focus when the user presses Tab. I don’t use Tab much, and used not to pay attention to it, until some users of my stuff complained about that!

Mathias