VSTO for Outlook

The much awaited support for Outlook is now official and can be downloaded for Beta 2 from Microsoft.

I've been experimenting a little bit with the pre-beta bits, but my colleague Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi has come a lot further. Get the low-down on some beta whoes on deployment of VSTO for Outlook in his write-up here.

When you've read Kjell-Sverres blogpost and been to MSDN to check out this article make sure to grab a hold of the codesnippets on the bottom of the page. There are also samples for download. Additionally there is a document included in the Beta install for Outlook which is a must-read before you get started. The document should be found on your local computer here:

\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Visual Studio Tools for Office\Documentation for VSTO Outlook Add-in (Beta).doc

For the next couple of days: VSTO for Outlook to stuff mail into Sharepoint. Killer app? I hope so:-) Feel free to contact me if this is something you've thought about and you've got some insights, suggestions or input.