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• VSTO Addins and Orcas...Part 2

  Changing the default form of a folder One you have a replacement form region, this is the next thing you would be opting to do. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb231505.aspx If you use the object model to dynamically create items, be sure to Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 11:04 AM by AbhijitC | 2 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• VSTO Addins and Orcas...Part 1

  I will brush through some quick things you can easily do using the really cool new product from the VS team. Some were these were really a pain before. Thank you folks for letting me off the manifest and resource file menace. Great work. Creating Form Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 10:50 AM by AbhijitC | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• Playing with Contacts...

  Creating contacts ContactItem objContact = objOutlook.CreateItem(olContactItem); objContact.FullName = "Abhijit" ; objContact.Email1Address = "abhijit@contoso.com" ; objContact.CompanyName = "Contoso" ; objContact.JobTitle = "Consultant" ; objContact.HomeTelephoneNumber Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 10:47 AM by AbhijitC | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• Working with the Page Ccontrol

  The addin development methodologies have changed sizeably in Orcas. However, to use this COM based control, you still have to develop your form region within Outlook. You can then import it into Orcas and handle the top level event for the scheduler. Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 10:09 AM by AbhijitC | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• Free busy...keeping you busy?

  Well, though I beleive very few of us have to actually track the iCalendar specification and code against it, it becomes neccessary especially when your mail server is not Exchange and you do not find a free adapter. Besides, even to use the free busy Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 9:58 AM by AbhijitC | 1 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• Outlook Sync

  Creating and sending a mail is a very simple task. However, while writing custom applications with form region fetching data from web services or other business object layers, often it is a big performance overhead to fetch these info on form region load. Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 9:53 AM by AbhijitC | 1 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• All the fun with Appointments

  Lets take them one by one: Creating Appointments: AppointmentItem newAppointment; newAppointment = Application .CreateItem( OlItemType .olAppointmentItem); newAppointment.MeetingStatus = OlMeetingStatus .olNonMeeting; newAppointment.Subject = "Dummy" Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 9:34 AM by AbhijitC | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO series

• VSTO all the way...

  As a developer at Microsoft, I have been programming with VSTO for quite some time. With Orcas coming in and with the new releases of Exchange supporting web services, development has changed considerably. When I got stuck earlier, I had to hunt a lot Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 9:28 AM by AbhijitC | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTO series