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Fixing the Charset on MIME Messages When Using ADODB.Stream.ReadText
29 October 09 04:00 PM
We had an issue recently where the customer had written an application to process MIME messages that had body parts encoded with the koi8-r charset …or at least that’s what it said: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C9F067.D9742103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Read More...
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Parsing ServerVersion: When an Int Is Really 5 Ints
21 September 09 11:45 AM
I recently had a case where a customer was asking how to figure out the mailbox version of a given user using Exchange Web Services (EWS). We noticed there is a node returned in the AutoDiscover response message called ServerVersion, but this value seems Read More...
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Line Breaks in Managed Web Service Proxy Classes
22 July 09 09:00 AM
Matt , Rick , and I were working on an issue recently where when an application using EWS would set a contact’s Street address to a value containing a carriage return and line feed, like this: physicalAddress.Street = "1234 56 Ave NE\r\nc/oPatrick Read More...
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Misha Shneerson : COM Interop: Handling events has side effects
22 October 08 09:04 AM
Misha, a Senior Dev on the VSTO team just posted this blog describing why handling events in managed code can be problematic. This is not news to our team, but he provides a good explanation of why it’s problematic. Misha Shneerson : COM Interop: Handling Read More...
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Why Pickups are the Best. More Robust, More Reliable, etc.
08 August 08 08:58 AM
We get calls about this all the time. You have a CDOSYS application that…what? No, I’m not talking about automobiles, why did you…oh, the title. Well, it’s true. Read on. The Dreaded Transport Error The problem we see more than any other is when a customer Read More...
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Form Region Leak in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 (v3) Template
07 August 08 05:03 PM
I had a case on this a few months ago, but thought more folks might run into this as they start moving to form regions. By default, if you use the VSTO template for creating a form region in Outlook, the item is leaked. This can show up in a number of Read More...
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STSSync for the Masses: Toub's Revenge
08 April 08 02:13 PM
Many of you have been using the Custom Calendar Provider samples created by Stephen Toub and I: Stephen Toub - Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2003 Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2007 The development team has finally documented pretty much Read More...
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Outlook Crashes When Using Outlook Object Model in Multiple Threads
13 March 08 12:11 PM
One of the major requirements most developers are up against these days is ensuring their code runs as fast as possible. No one likes to wait for an application to run, they want seamless, invisible, instant speed. Multithreading is becoming more popular Read More...
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Stehle's finally doing his OOM series
07 December 07 07:54 AM
I've been encouraging him to blog his "Matt Stehle's Tenents of OOM Programming" for a while now, and he's finally begun with a series on some common pitfalls we see with developers using OOM in .NET. This first article is concerned with a common reason Read More...
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HOWTO: Get Email Messages from Exchange to SharePoint
06 February 07 11:15 AM
Many people ask about how to do this, so I thought I'd write up a sample. This sample basically searches the inbox of a user and then does an HTTP GET against the DAV:href to get the EML file and then does an HTTP PUT to upload it to a SharePoint document Read More...
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Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2007
21 November 06 10:43 AM
So if you were using Stephen Toub's Custom Calendar Provider sample for Outlook 2003, and you are testing out the awesome new Outlook 2007 features, you may have noticed that the code sample he provided doesn't work any more. Stephen is planning to update Read More...
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