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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...
ConfigureMsgService fails with MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057)
10 July 09 09:02 AM
I recently helped a customer with an issue where they were calling ConfigureMsgService and that call was failing, returning an HRESULT of MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057). After debugging it, we established that the reason that ConfigureMsgService Read More...
MAPI Docs Moved
04 December 08 10:34 AM
So, the Exchange team decided they didn't want to maintain the MAPI documentation anymore since they don't ship MAPI anymore. So the Outlook team stepped up and took over the docs. As such, you can now find them under the Outlook branch in the MSDN left-nav. Read More...
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Trouble with Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook
22 October 08 09:08 AM
Several million of you have downloaded the Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook which allows integration in Outlook with maps and has some cool functionality around extending your appointment blocks to account for automatically calculated travel time among 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...
Forwarding Appointments in Outlook Prepopulates “To” Field With All Attendees
19 September 08 01:38 PM
We’ve had a lot of folks calling in recently about this one. The symptoms are that if you go to your calendar in Outlook and forward a meeting, the To field is prepopulated with all attendees of the meeting and the Subject field is not prefixed with “FW:.” Read More...
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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Two-way STSSync Protocol Server for Outlook 2007
10 June 08 05:53 PM
So I've finally done it. I made the first stab at a two-way stssync protocol server. You can get it here: http://www.codeplex.com/stssyncprovider I'd love to have some of you start using it and report issues you find with it so I can continue to improve Read More...
Outlook Requests Can't Get a Date
23 April 08 02:52 PM
There exists a scenario in which attendees to a meeting in Outlook will receive an updated meeting request from the originator that appears to be "out-of-date." In the InfoBar, Outlook will display a message that says "This request is out-of-date." If Read More...
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...
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...
Folder Homepage no longer works in Outlook 2007 from MAPI store providers
19 December 07 11:02 AM
If you are developing or have developed a MAPI store provider for use in Outlook and are trying to support folder homepages in your store, you are probably familiar with the PR_FOLDER_WEBVIEWINFO property. This property is undocumented and not supported, Read More...
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Tell Us Why You're Still Using ECEs
21 November 07 10:06 AM
We want to know why you're still using ECEs as opposed to an add-in. Please hop over to Stephen Griffin 's blog and let us know: http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2007/10/12/whither-ece.aspx Read More...
Postedby Patrick Creehan | 1 Comments    
Outlook Performance Improvement Patch Released
17 April 07 09:12 AM
A new patch was released recently that helps performance on Outlook 2007 noticeably. Important Information for BCM users: PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE BEFORE INSTALLING THE UPDATE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935569 Where do I get it: The Outlook update Read More...
Postedby Patrick Creehan | 0 Comments    
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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