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Migrated custom C++/CDOSYS app throws compiler errors

Posted 26 days ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Recently I was working with one of the developer who earlier designed an CDOSYS based mail component in his C++ application built using earlier Visual Studio (2005) version . After migration to VS 2008 environment, they noticed compile errors with the...
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Troubleshooting: Outlook Social Connector Provider error codes

Posted 11 months ago

by Deva [MSFT]
- 1 Comments
Outlook Social Connector providers should return errors to the caller. Please note that Success, warning, and error values are returned by using a 32-bit number that is called a result handle, or HRESULT. An HRESULT is not a handle to anything; it is...
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Exchange Server 2013: How to write an Exchange 2013 transport agent?

Posted 3 months ago

by Deva [MSFT]
- 1 Comments
Here is a developer article published “ how to build/write an Exchange Server 2013 based transport agent?” in a detailed fashion about a sample transport Agent to illustrate various Exchange 2013 transport agent functionality as well as stripping all...
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TechEd 2012: Few Exchange 2010 sessions that I attended…

Posted 11 months ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Session # 1: An Inside View of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 : Exchange Server 2010 SP2 was released at the end of 2011; it brought some fantastic new features that I like. In this session, you can hear from the Product Group about OWA Mini, the...
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What’s new: Bing Search API is available on Windows Azure Marketplace

Posted over 1 year ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Now Bing Search API is available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! Starting today, you can sign up in the Marketplace to access web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions using JSON or XML. As a one...
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Happy birthday Visual C++ @ 20

Posted 2 months ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Wow, it’s birthday time. Visual C++ turned 20 this month, which certainly has come a long way. To get more info, refer the related post: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-15-VC-turns-20-Ale-turns-40-C9-turns-9 . Also it’s no coincident...
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Interesting article: “Nokia Lumia 800 Windows phone experiment @ 105,000 feet”

Posted over 1 year ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Interesting article on “Nokia Lumia 800 reaches 105,000 feet”… just check it out!!
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Exchange VSS : At Exchange Server 2010 ESEUtil fails with Jet error–1032

Posted 12 days ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Recently I was playing for a VSS issue at my Exchange Server 2010 environment – when I run the ESEUtil (with its parameter /mh) command then I got the error “Jet error –1032”. > eseutil /mh "D:\Temp\tempdb.edb " Extensible Storage Engine...
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Fix: Extra.exe doesn’t work or collect data as expected at Exchange Server 2010

Posted 16 days ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Recently one of my developer customer pointed out that he used Extra.exe as part of troubleshoot performance issues at his Exchange Server 2010 environment. But he noticed that Extra.exe doesn’t work or collect the data as expected. During investigation...
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Availability Web Service Protocol Specification References

Posted over 1 year ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Information for the availability service is provided via our open specifications document: [MS-OXWAVLS]. Information for the security model used in the availability service, please reference the following document: [MS-OXCPERM]. For more info, you can...
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Office 2010 SP2 beta now available for download

Posted 1 month ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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Now you can download the beta for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 SP2. For more info, you can refer the Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering post .
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Office Developer: How to programmatically restrict or filter “To” property using Outlook Object Model?

Posted 1 month ago

by Deva [MSFT]
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In this post, we will see how to programmatically filter/restrict items “To” property. Let we take this scenario. In Outlook, we notice it contains 6 items “To” property containing “Deva G”: Note:In specifying a filter in a Jet or DASL query...
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Download : Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

The Windows Phone team released the final bits for Windows Phone 7 - Developer Tools released to web (RTW). The tooling is free and will integrate with Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 if you have them installed as well. This is the same powerful...
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Fix available for Silverlight application development using Visual Studio 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

Earlier i faced the following issue – i was creating a Silverlight application using Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight. I noticed that after copying and pasting a Style Setter, then editing that Setter’s Property and Value, the XAML Editor displays an...
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Download : Application bar icons for Windows Phone 7 Series

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

Please find the download - a set of application bar icons for use when developing Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP. It contains a set of 64 application bar icons that you can use when developing applications...
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Download : Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 1.0

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

The same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles design and testing of Windows Phone 7 phone applications. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9...
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Developer Hub : Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

With continuation to my previous blog post (Windows Phone 7 Design and Development), i am adding couple of sessions, and a link to their course material . Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 1 of 12): Introduction A quick tour of Windows Phone 7...
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Developer Hub: Getting started with Windows Phone 7 design and development :)

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

Being a WP7 developer, i am here to share the following few of the useful design and development tools, sites, videos, tutorials, labs, training kit, Microsoft forums and a lot to start. There are tons of information available in MSDN, TechNet, Channel9...
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Troubleshooting: Why Windows Mobile is connecting to my PC?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

There are several things that may prevent your device from connecting: If Windows Live OneCare is installed on your computer, it may be blocking device connectivity. For the steps to configure Windows Live OneCare to allow the device to connect, visit...
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Download : Windows Phone Developer tools CTP

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

With respect to my earlier blog post regarding Windows Mobile 6.5 developer tool kit , now you can download the “ Windows Phone Developer tools CTP ”. The same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles from...
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KIN : Microsoft Unveils next generation social Windows Phone

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

I want to share information regarding KIN , a new next generation Social Windows Phone released by Microsoft Corp. on April 12 2009 (click here to watch “ Microsoft unveils Kin ” – Silverlight Presentation). It’s designed specifically for people...
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Download : Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a...
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Upgrade : Can you update from Windows Mobile 6.1 to 6.5?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

As per Windows Phone forum article , over the next few months, the partners may release updates to some of their Windows Mobile 6.1 phones. As the updates become available, we’ll add links here that will guide you to the installation instructions on the...
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About me…Hello World?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Deva [MSFT]

I am Deva from Microsoft. I am an enthusiast and a developer with Windows Phone/Mobile application development, XNA and Silverlight. I will provide related updates in this MSDN blog. I look forward from you to provide your valuable comments, queries which...