Consolidated list of VSTO Outlook resources

When I answer questions in the forums or ng's, I point people to https://msdn.microsoft.com/office to get up-to-date content for VSTO Outlook. However, the site, as great as it is, displays mostly just official Microsoft content. It's good content (despite the fact that I have written a good share of it), don't misunderstand. But, there are other resources available, and there is no single page that lists what is 'out there'. Here's a list I will maintain and keep up to date.

Reference:

• Outlook VBA Reference
• Outlook Forms Reference
• Outlook Integration API
• WebDAV
• ExOLEDB
• CDOEX (CDO For Exchange 2000 Server)
• CDO 1.21

Articles with code ( or code downloads):

• Create an Outlook Business Contact Assistant Add-in with Visual Studio Tools for Office by Naveen Yajaman and John Durant

• Create an Outlook My.Blogs Managed Code Add-in by David Hill and John Durant

• Create an Outlook Task Add-in Solution with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by John Durant

• Create an Outlook Add-in that Consolidates Disparate Task Data into a Single View by Ty Anderson

• Use an Outlook Add-in to Create and Mail an Excel Spreadsheet by Scott Hillier

• Outlook the Way You Want It—Build Custom Outlook GUIs with WinForms & VSTO by Ty Anderson

• An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using C# by Andrew Troelsen

• Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide by Microsoft

Articles:

• Architecture of the Outlook Add-in Support in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by Andrew Whitechapel

• Introducing Outlook Add-in Support in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by John Durant

• VSTO's Outlook Integration Makes Building Managed Add-ins A Snap by Ty Anderson

Books:

• Configuring Outlook 2003 by Sue Mosher, Robert Sparnaaij, Charlie Pulfer
• Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Developers, and Power Users by Sue Mosher
• Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and Infopath by Eric Carter, Eric Lippert

Hands-on-labs:

• Outlook Add-in Hands-on Labs

Code Snippets:

• Outlook Add-in Code Snippets (link currently broken- will update when it's back online)

Feature Samples:

• Outlook add-in Feature Samples

MVP and 3rd Party Resources

• https://www.officezealot.com/
• https://www.outlookcode.com/vsto/index.htm
• https://www.devx.com/officeprodev

Blogs:

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Team Blog

• John R. Durant- Office and a short, bald man

• Chris Kunicki- Random 'deep thoughts' on MS Office and related subjects

• Ty Anderson- The Business of Office

• Eric Carter- .NET4Office

• Andrew Whitechapel- Stuff and nonsense

Newsgroups and Forums:

• microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.vba
• microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.forms
• microsoft.public.office.interop
• microsoft.public.office.program_addins
• microsoft.public.office.program_forms
• microsoft.public.office.program_vba

Get Answers or Give Comments:

• https://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/wizard.mspx
• https://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub
• https://office.microsoft.com

Video:

• Visual Studio Tools for Office: Outlook integration by Andrew Whitechapel

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