Call for post topics

As some of you may (or may not) know I'm a developer working at Microsoft on the Outlook team. My primary focus is Outlook Programmability (i.e. Outlook COM Object Model). Now that Office 2007 is complete I would like to post some code samples of how to use some of the new Outlook Object Model API's. Two new API's I plan on discussing are the PropertyAccessor and the Table. However, if there are any general questions about Outlook programming that you would like me to discuss or post code samples for please let me know. I've already had a request for sample Powershell scripts that automate Outlook, so I will try to provide a couple examples of that.

Most of my posts are generally technical code samples or tips and tricks. Usually they are solutions to a problem I was faced with and had to spend some time researching to find or develop. I post them to help reduce research time for others (and myself 2 years from now it is a great way to remember things) who are faced with a similar problem.

That said I'm now looking for post ideas that will help give more back to the community that provided me with some many solutions over the years. So if you have a technical question that can best be addressed by a small code sample I'm your man. Off the top of my head some areas I consider myself proficient in are: Outlook Programmability, VBA, Regular Expressions, C# and .NET development.

I'm currently exploring Windows Vista and particularly Vista media center (got my first media center PC setup a couple months ago and just upgraded to Vista), so don't be surprised to see some posts in that area over the coming months.

So if you have a requests please leave a comment and I will see what I can come up with.

7 Comments

  • Cool, thanks for the offer.
    Something I can foresee a need for will be business clients e-mailing media content to a WinFX server or blog, so anything related to posting media would be awesome.

  • I would love to see how to integrate outlook contact list into a custom webapp

  • I'd like to see how to manipulate the Outlook/IE7 Common RSS store from within Outlook.

  • Mark - In order to make this a small sample I would need to have a specific scenario. It would seem to me that most of that work would have to be done on the server (either mail, web/blog, or file server).

    Kevin - I've actually seen this requested a number of times, unfortunately Outlook does not support interacting with it directly on a web server. However I think I will post about this and explain the problems and some possible work around solutions.

  • Rob - Unfortunately there are no Outlook API's to manipulate the Common RSS store. Outlook only syncs with it (assuming you have that option turned on). IE7 however may have some API's, I'm not sure.

  • Hi,
    I am looking for a way to programatically send InfoPath forms via email. Is there a sample out there that shows how to do this?

  • Hi

    Is it possible to use Outlook2007s PropertyAccessor to access propoerties that have been promoted from an Infopath form?

    Indeed, this the only way to access these fields programmatically within Outlook?

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