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Friday, February 27, 2009 10:57 AM

Accelerators in the Web Browser Control

Suppose you want to put the Web Browser control on an Outlook form. You might follow the steps in this article to create a custom form with the Web Browser control embedded on the second page. Suppose then you switch to this page, load a web page in the
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:30 AM

Outlook 2007 – Now With SP2!

Ok- not exactly SP2 itself, but the Outlook Team has announced that the February update that shipped this week includes a number of performance tweaks and fixes that were originally destined for SP2. Notable among these tweaks are a number of improvements
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:27 AM

MAPI Doc Download

Tired of waiting on the Internet? Ever wish you could study MAPI while you’re sitting on the beach? Well now you can! The Outlook 2007 MAPI Reference has been conveniently repackaged as a downloadable .chm file you can install on your laptop and take
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:13 AM

Here Tabby!

I don’t play with VSTO much, but I had an opportunity recently to debug an issue with tab order in Form Regions that resulted in an interesting workaround. This issue was this: Suppose you’ve created an Outlook 2007 Add-in project in C# in Visual Studio
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Monday, February 23, 2009 11:52 AM

Local Referrals

Time for another round on referrals . When last we left off, we were able to get the MAPI download to request and receive referrals from Exchange 2007, but the settings didn’t work if MAPI was running locally on the Exchange 2007 server. Let’s take a
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Friday, February 20, 2009 9:48 AM

Direct Load of ExMAPI32.dll Now Works

A few months ago I documented a bug in the Exchange MAPI download that prevents you from loading ExMAPI32.dll directly. The only way to load it was through the MAPI Stub library. This problem is now fixed with the 6.5.8069 update . A few notes: You must
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:44 AM

Too Many Notifications

We had a customer recently who’s application iterated through mailboxes on the Exchange server, advising for notifications on a handful of folders in each mailbox. They were fine with a few thousand mailboxes, but as they tried to scale up, they ran into
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:06 AM

Ignoring Notifications

Suppose you want to register for notifications on all the visible folders in a user’s mailbox. One option would be to walk the list of folders in the hierarchy tree and register for notifications. That would work, but would be very inefficient. It also
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:01 PM

Detecting a Password Protected PST

If you’ve been working with PSTs for a while, you’re probably familiar with the properties PR_PST_PW_SZ_OLD and PR_PST_PW_SZ_NEW, given in mspst.h, which are used to access password protected PSTs and also to change the password. I had a customer recently
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Monday, February 16, 2009 4:25 PM

PST Files In Multiple Profiles

A scenario recently came up that a couple of customers have hit with Outlook’s version of MAPI. These customers are in the business of processing PST files found on a user’s machine. They may be loading them up to scan the messages for viruses, or to
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