Lets look at the following quickly: · Creating bindings in code · Creating bindings in XAML · Static Resources · Binding Direction · Update Frequency · Hierarchical data binding Creating bindings in code The System.Windows.Data...

It has been fun playing around with VSTO for a few months when Orcas came my way but Silverlight seems to be the new thing to play with. I will concentrate on these in my future posts. I will start with a old post on WPF data binding and move on to Silverlight...

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...

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...

Creating contacts ContactItem objContact = objOutlook.CreateItem(olContactItem); objContact.FullName = "Abhijit" ; objContact.Email1Address = "abhijit@contoso.com" ; objContact.CompanyName = "Contoso" ; objContact.JobTitle = "Consultant...

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....

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...

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...

Lets take them one by one: Creating Appointments: AppointmentItem newAppointment; newAppointment = Application .CreateItem( OlItemType .olAppointmentItem); newAppointment.MeetingStatus = OlMeetingStatus .olNonMeeting; newAppointment.Subject...

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...