Just wanted to provide a quick summary of content published on MSDN for Office client applications in April, 2011: API References and SDKs Office 2010 Primary Interop Assembly Reference (MSDN refresh) Open XML SDK 2.0 for...

Are you interested in learning to develop solutions for Outlook? The Outlook Developer Roadmap puts the the building blocks in clearer perspective. The Outlook Developer Roadmap is the latest in a series of Office developer roadmaps to help developers...

I recently chatted with our MAPI expert Stephen Griffin and would like to share what I learned about the Outlook nickname cache. The nickname cache is the list of recipient names that is displayed when you insert names in the To, Cc, or Bcc field in...

Often I see customers on forums asking how to display custom user interface in the Office Fluent ribbon under some specific conditions. For example, how to display a custom ribbon only for mail inspectors, or, how would one tell the inspector is in compose...

“When are they EVER going to revise the Excel Services JavaScript Object Model documentation for SharePoint Server 2010?" Well, as a member of "they," I'm glad you asked! The SharePoint Server 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) online...

Attaching a file to a Microsoft Outlook mail item is one of the most popular customer actions in Outlook. Naturally, many power users also ask how to do this programmatically. The Outlook object model provides the Attachment object, Attachments...

A few customers have asked about how to run the time-reporting add-in that was published on MSDN as Creating a Simple Time-Reporting Tool Based on the Outlook 2010 Calendar , and discussed in the blog post Time-Reporting Tool now Available as an Outlook...

The Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference has recently been updated on MSDN. The Nickname Cache topic is now in sync with my earlier blog post Programmatically Accessing the Nickname Cache in Outlook 2010 . What's New in This Edition lists the following updates...

The Microsoft Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference has been updated on MSDN! The updated documentation is also available as a download . This release includes documentation for the binary stream structure for the PidLidPropertyDefinitionStream property. This...

In the intervening time between when we had to hand-off the Developer References to go into the Office 2010 Beta several weeks ago and now, the Office Developer Documentation team has been extremely busy adding new content about the new features. We have...

Erika Ehrli Cabral has great post about all of the new content we've published to help you get started with Office 2010 development. She also has links to the downloads so you can get the Beta! http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2009/11/18/getting...

Microsoft Outlook supports properties for items and folders. For example, a MailItem object has built-in properties such as the To , Subject , and Body properties, and a Folder object has built-in properties such as the Name and CurrentView properties...

In the Outlook object model, the Table object provides a light-weight row-set that allows fast enumeration and filtering of items in a folder. Each row in a Table corresponds to an item, and each column in the Table corresponds to a property of the item...

In SharePoint 2010, Excel Services added support for ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript). This enabled developers to automate, customize, and interact with an Excel Web Access Web Part control on a SharePoint page, but it was only available in SharePoint...

In my recent posting about a time-reporting macro, I mentioned a workaround to have the macro include appointments that fall outside of the normal work hours set in the Outlook Options dialog box. Alert : If you have appointments in your date range...