This post captures and summarizes information about developing an Outlook solution for customers who run 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook 2010. Since developing Outlook solutions is a very broad subject, the article gathers information from various...

This post is about issues you might want to be aware of if you plan to update your existing Microsoft Outlook solutions to run on Outlook 2010. This information is also available in the Outlook 2010 Developer Reference which you can download at Office...

If you’re a Visio solution developer, you’ll find several new features in the Visio 2010 Beta to interest you and to enhance your ability to create great Visio solutions. Among these features are the following: · The ribbon component of the Office...

Michael Bauer * recently contributed a code example that shows a simple but common way to use the new MailItem proeprty, Sender , in Microsoft Outlook 2010. *Michael is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional with expertise in developing Outlook solutions...

John Durant , one of the product managers for Office developers, has put together the Office Developer Atlas interactive training tool (built using Silverlight). It is a great way to come up to speed on developing productivity solutions with Office. It...

Today, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector (OSC) Beta (February Update). The Outlook Social Connector is a Microsoft Outlook add-in that connects to social and business networks, including Microsoft SharePoint or other popular...

Click-to-Run is a software delivery and updating mechanism available to Microsoft Office 2010. Products delivered via Click-to-Run execute in a virtual application environment on the local operating system. This means that they have private copies of...

Following up on my blog for the February update of the Outlook Social Connector (OSC) Beta, MySpace released the beta version of their provider for the OSC, MySpace for Outlook, yesterday. MySpace for Outlook lets you view friends' profiles, activities...

My friend and colleague, Eric White, recently posted a superb write up on his blog about a new feature in SharePoint Server 2010 — Word Automation Services . Word Automation Services is a new service application included with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise...

With the announcement of Microsoft Office 2010 being released to manufacturing (RTM) today, I’d like to bring your attention to the new Microsoft Outlook 2010 Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) Reference . For those of you familiar with developing managed...

For those Office users who speak German: the second Office Community Day is occuring on June 15, 2010, in Munich, Germany. The focus of Office Community Day will be developing Microsoft Office 2010 business applications using Microsoft Office development...

In the last month, we published a set of three articles for Microsoft Office 2010 Mobile Service . Office 2010 Mobile Service (OMS) allows users to seamlessly integrate mobile capabilities of Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with their...

Microsoft announced the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector (OSC) 1.1 yesterday, together with a new Facebook provider and Windows Live Messenger provider, joining LinkedIn and MySpace in the family of OSC providers. You can go to our social network providers...

Thanks, everyone, for voting on the Open XML SDK prototypes . Based on your feedback, we are making changes to the documentation for our next refresh in the fall. We will let you know once the updated documentation is live!

Today we published a few Office 2010 object model references on the MSDN Library: Access 2010 Developer Reference Excel 2010 Developer Reference Outlook 2010 Developer Reference Project 2010 Developer Reference Word 2010 Developer Reference...