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November 2006 - Posts

MAPI Editor Options

I thought it'd be interesting to document the registry values that MAPI Editor uses. Most of them are exposed in the UI through Options/Other. All of these registry keys are stored under the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MFCMAPI. If

Folders Don't Do Named Props

A fellow engineer recently asked me how to set custom properties on a folder object in a PST. I reminded him that folders in the PST provider don't support named properties . He was surprised to hear this. I was surprised to learn that this hadn't actually

The Intentional Memory Leak

So - there's a memory leak in Outlook's implementation of MAPI. That shouldn't be too much of a shock. Just about any sizable application is bound to have a leak or two. What's interesting about this leak is that it is intentional. A little history: We
 
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