Project Niobe

re: Project Niobe

stefan — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:20:00 GMT

Excellent!!
I've never understood why MS does not provide managed APIs for things like
Outlook and IE

re: Project Niobe

Scott Galloway — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:28:00 GMT

Don's suppose you've come across a way to directly add Tasks to an Exchange folder?

re: Project Niobe

Eric Legault [Outlook MVP] — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:00:00 GMT

Oooooh, sounds great! Good luck with the project. Will this object model still throw up the HELL dialog when accessing the restricted props/method/objects? Of course you could leave it out so Dmitry can continue making a little bit of coin with Redemption...

re: Project Niobe

Simon — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:07:00 GMT

Eric, there is an option to enable/disable access to the fields that cause this security dialog. If you disable access, the runtime returns a null value when an add-in tries to access one of the restricted fields.

Alternatively, you can enable this and then sign and register the runtime (as you would with any other trusted COM add-in).

re: Project Niobe

Simon — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:12:00 GMT

Scott

You can add tasks to any folder, but with Niobe it must be driven by the client. For example, the following code would work if you wanted the user to pick a folder to add tasks to:

//Ask the user to pick a folder
Folder folder = application.FolderPicker();
if (folder is TaskFolder)
{
TaskFolder taskFolder = (TaskFolder)folder;

Task newTask = new Task("Buy gift for Simon");
newTask.PercentComplete = 95;
taskFolder.Add(newTask);
taskFolder.Save();
}

re: Project Niobe

Maxim V. Karpov — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:32:00 GMT

When, will this SDK will be available to general public?

Sounds very cool, Maxim

re: Project Niobe

Simon — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:29:00 GMT

Maxim,

It is available to the public today. Go to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/niobe - download the source and/or binaries. You can also apply to join the workspace.

re: Project Niobe

Gyorgy — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:09:00 GMT

Simon,

Is it possible to write an external console application that uses the Niobe SDK to manage Outlook contacts, or it is only for add-ins?

re: Project Niobe

Simon — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:46:00 GMT

Gyorgy

Currently, any calls must be made from a process that is launched by Outlook. You could of course think about creating an add-in that listened on a port or web service and talk to it from an external application that way...

Take Outs: The Digital Doggy Bag of Blog Bits for 4 February 2004

Enjoy Every Sandwich — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:17:00 GMT

In the bag tonight: A little poetry from Ted Kooser; Microsoft is watching us; cut and paste as not HTML; Good Eats; On being an MVP; NetCetra; Omaha PHP Meetup; Being 100% Kerry; GooFresh; Book hunting; Office automation and XML; The new Alerts SDK; SQL Server as an object store; SSL and Certificate Server; The power of VSTO; OPM T-shirts; the Craft Brand Alliance; Smart Cosumers and Good Products; 90% of web apps vulnerable to hackers; Friendly Fire; People complain about fixing IE?; A bug remains after the IE Patch;

Outlook Gets 'Niobe'

overflow — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:01:00 GMT

re: Project Niobe

sharper — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:55:00 GMT

when i using the Niobe dlls, registered the RssModule ,
start outlook2003, then report a exception,
its mean, cant not found some objects?