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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...
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HOWTO: Exposing your VSTO 2005 SE Add-In to External Code
10 November 06 12:48 PM
So with regular COM AddIns in Outlook, to expose your COM Add-In to external applications involved setting the Application.ComAddins.Item("ProgID").Object property equal to an instance of the object. Typically, in your OnConnection event handler, you'd Read More...
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VSTO add-ins and the NewInspector Event
06 July 06 10:29 PM
VSTO add-ins for Outlook are great. It's much easier than implementing the IDTExtensibility2 interface. Basically, the way it works is this (actually, Andrew Whitechapel does a much better job explaining than I will, so here you go): the AddinLoader.dll Read More...
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