Contents tagged with Outlook
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All Outlook object model calls run on the main thread
While writing an Outlook addin, lots of people feel that they should try to help with Outlook performance by running their addin code on a background thread. While this can help in some scenarios it can actually make things worse in others, particularly if the addin is interacting primarily with the Outlook Object Model (OOM). The OOM is run in a single threaded apartment COM server, therefore every COM call is executed on the main thread of outlook.exe.
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Failure creating an Outlook application object on Vista
While creating a Outlook application object from another process in C# like:
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Why does my Outlook event seem to stop working?
Imagine we have some code in an Outlook addin that looks similar to code below. Does anyone see anything wrong with it? It simply places a button on the menu bar and shows a message box when the button is clicked. The code works for sometime but then all of a sudden the button mysteriously stops working. What gives?
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Retrieving your Outlook appointments for a given date range
Before we dive into the code sample lets take a quick look at what it means for an appointment to fall into a given date range.
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How do I access my Outlook contacts from my web application?
How do I access my Outlook contacts from my web application?
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Windows Live Writer BlogThis macro for Outlook 2007
If you use Windows Live Writer as your blogging tool and Outlook 2007 as your RSS aggregator then you maybe interested in this VBA macro. It will pull the necessary information from the currently selected RSS Item in Outlook and call the Windows Live Writer BlogThis API to create a new post.