Get started with VSTO for Outlook

Objectware AS has participated in the alpha and beta program for the Visual Studio Tools for Office for Outlook. I figured that this beta is something a lot of people wants to have a look at in the calm times of summer, and started googling to dig up som tutorials, introductions and howtos on more advanced subjects.

Unfortunately right now you'll end up with a million blogposts on the release of the beta, and very little real content. I've compiled what I've found here, and please feel free to comment with more real in-depth resources on VSTO for Outlook to ease adoption for newcomers.

• Fellow Objectware AS-guy KjellSJ gets into details here and here
• Techquick summarizes MSDN content
• David Hill [MSFT] have a under the covers post.
• Whitechapel talks about it
• Outlookcode.com is also collecting VSTO Outlook content
• OfficeZealot.com has a VSTO section (but little Outlook content right now)
• Considering that there is no changes to the Outlook object model you're probably going to need it
• The MSDN VSTO2 blog used to have great content although right now it seems to be down

I'll soon post some more stuff on my VSTO Outlook addin for storing mail in Sharepoint Document Libraries so stay tuned.