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I have come to the realization, at some point, that I never want to close Outlook. Really, there's no reason for me to shut it down except when doing something special, like freeing every available byte of memory, or when developing add-ins to it...
A few weeks ago, Lawrence Liu (a senior technical PM and community lead for Sharepoint at Microsoft) linked to a few screencasts for learning how to use various features in MOSS2007. In that entry, he mentioned how screecasts are more effective and efficient...
In a Channel 9 conversation, user Dr. Herbie expressed his long-standing desire to see his Outlook calendar as a desktop wallpaper. This, I admit, has never once occured to me. The nice thing about it is that it's so amazingly simple to implement...
One of the most annoying things about writing add-ins for Office is that it tends to swallow any and all errors that occur. All exceptions are silently thrown into the trash heap without even a statusbar flag. Nothing. This meant that we often had to...
Writing the Outlook add-in described in my previous post was composed of the following steps: 1) Creating the project Ah, the wonders of VSTO. Saving us all the unnecessary hassle of adding COM references, implementing interfaces and working too hard...
Introduction Outlook has always been a bit of a latecomer to the VSTO game, being a step behind and a version later than Word and Excel. I'm glad to see that with Outlook 2007 and VSTO 2005SE it's gotten simpler and easier to write add-ins for...
A client asked me the other day what happened to File->Properties in Word 2007. They simply couldn't find it. In the Beta1 TR, I remember it was confusingly located on the Status Bar (!) – right-click, pick View and View Properties. Very...
The drop-down list of names that Outlook gives us to auto-complete a name or address being written is stored in a file called <ProfileName>.NK2 in our Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook directory. This file is stored in a proprietary binary format...
I'm really surprised at how hard it is to find a good DateTimePicker control that meets all our requirements: 1) Must suppost null dates, like the Due Date datepicker in Outlook tasks. 2) Must be an ActiveX, and supported inside both .NET winforms and...
The hour is late, so I will be brief. If you want to debug an Office 2003 IBF solution, you must have C++ installed as part of your VS.NET 2003 installation. If you click on "Build Solution and Execute Action" and see the build succeed but nothing else...
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