Every once in a while, we learn of neat apps that have been created with the Office development tools in Visual Studio. In an Outlook 2007 add-in, Jake Ginnivan combined WPF and the Facebook API to respond to Facebook events from a Ribbon. In addition, this add-in works in Outlook 2010 and has been deployed with ClickOnce.  He’s written about this in two parts:

Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 1

Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 2

If you have come across other VSTO apps, feel free to leave a link in a comment here.

Mary Lee, Programming Writer.