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Messaging development spouts and findings.
How to Build an Outlook Social Connector Provider
Last fall, the Outlook documentation team approached me about using an Outlook Social Connector...
Date: 01/27/2011
Office 2010 PIAs Are Now Available
The Office 2010 PIAs are finally available for download:...
Date: 09/08/2010
RPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF When Calling IDataSource.SaveTo in CDOEX on Exchange 2007
We’ve been seeing some cases over the past year where customers are using CDOEX or EXOLEDB in...
Date: 08/26/2010
OSC Provider Proxy Library Updated
You may remember when I unveiled the Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy. Well, good news – I...
Date: 07/20/2010
Neither Silverlight 3 nor 4 Work on Outlook Folder Homepages
Starting in Silverlight 3, the algorithm that SL uses to determine the hosting URL of the SL control...
Date: 06/30/2010
Moving your apps to Office 2010
The Office team put out some Channel9 videos and some tools to help you get your add-ins and...
Date: 06/15/2010
Rude Operator
If you are automating Outlook in a standalone application or other app outside of Outlook and have...
Date: 06/09/2010
Introducing The Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy Library
You may have heard of OfficeTalk. You may have heard of the Outlook Social Connector. As it turns...
Date: 04/12/2010
How To Programmatically Access Exchange 2010 Archive Mailboxes
Archive mailboxes are a new concept in Exchange 2010 that solve some of the problems inherent in PST...
Date: 03/04/2010
That’s My Name, Don’t Wear It Out
Part 1 It used to be in earlier versions of Exchange, you were able to change the names of the...
Date: 02/01/2010
Push Notifications broken in Exchange 2010
We recently found a bug in the way Exchange 2010 calls into your EWS Push Notification endpoint. You...
Date: 12/02/2009
Fixing the Charset on MIME Messages When Using ADODB.Stream.ReadText
We had an issue recently where the customer had written an application to process MIME messages that...
Date: 10/29/2009
Parsing ServerVersion: When an Int Is Really 5 Ints
I recently had a case where a customer was asking how to figure out the mailbox version of a given...
Date: 09/21/2009
MimeContent vs Mime Content
Recently, I helped a customer with an issue where they were wondering if it was essential to set the...
Date: 09/16/2009
Exchange 2007 SP2 is Released
In case you missed it, Exchange 2007 SP2 was released this week. There are some cool new features,...
Date: 08/27/2009
Line Breaks in Managed Web Service Proxy Classes
Matt, Rick, and I were working on an issue recently where when an application using EWS would set a...
Date: 07/22/2009
ConfigureMsgService fails with MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057)
I recently helped a customer with an issue where they were calling ConfigureMsgService and that call...
Date: 07/10/2009
DeleteItem Ignores ChangeKeys
According to our documentation, DeleteItem calls should fail with a ErrorStaleObject error when the...
Date: 07/08/2009
TNEF (Chapter 2): Old School
As discussed in Chapter 1 of this captivating series, MAPI contains an interface to allow developers...
Date: 01/27/2009
TNEF (Chapter 1): Basics
I’ve worked quite a few cases recently regarding problems some folks have had either reading or...
Date: 01/16/2009
New Drop of MAPI/CDO Download Released Today
After a hiccup earlier this week in getting the new MAPI & CDO downloads published to...
Date: 12/19/2008
MAPI Docs Moved
So, the Exchange team decided they didn't want to maintain the MAPI documentation anymore since they...
Date: 12/04/2008
Trouble with Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook
Several million of you have downloaded the Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook which allows...
Date: 10/22/2008
Misha Shneerson : COM Interop: Handling events has side effects
Misha, a Senior Dev on the VSTO team just posted this blog describing why handling events in managed...
Date: 10/22/2008
OnSyncDelete Delete
The Exchange team is looking for some feedback on business scenarios that will be impacted by...
Date: 09/30/2008
Forwarding Appointments in Outlook Prepopulates “To” Field With All Attendees
We’ve had a lot of folks calling in recently about this one. The symptoms are that if you go to your...
Date: 09/19/2008
Can’t Get Raw MIME in Transport Event in Exchange 2007 SP1
If you wrote a Transport Agent for Exchange 2007 RTM which was accessing the raw MIME message which...
Date: 08/13/2008
Why Pickups are the Best. More Robust, More Reliable, etc.
We get calls about this all the time. You have a CDOSYS application that…what? No, I’m not talking...
Date: 08/08/2008
Form Region Leak in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 (v3) Template
I had a case on this a few months ago, but thought more folks might run into this as they start...
Date: 08/07/2008
Understanding How You Use This Blog
The folks at CTS are asking us to post the following survey to our blogs. You only need to respond...
Date: 08/05/2008
You Say Toemaytoe I Say Tahmahtah
We’ve seen a bunch of folks asking recently if their Exchange 2007 CAS server can talk to their...
Date: 07/16/2008
RPC - Really Problematic Conundrum
I’ve had a couple cases recently where customers were having problems getting into deadlock with one...
Date: 07/15/2008
How does E2k7's API Stack Stack up?
Check this out: Exchange Server 2007 Legacy API Property Mapping This helps you compare WebDAV/CDOEX...
Date: 06/20/2008
Two-way STSSync Protocol Server for Outlook 2007
So I've finally done it. I made the first stab at a two-way stssync protocol server. You can get it...
Date: 06/10/2008
Outlook Requests Can't Get a Date
There exists a scenario in which attendees to a meeting in Outlook will receive an updated meeting...
Date: 04/23/2008
STSSync for the Masses: Toub's Revenge
Many of you have been using the Custom Calendar Provider samples created by Stephen Toub and I:...
Date: 04/08/2008
CDOEXM CreateMailbox is leaking memory
I had a case recently where the customer had built an application to help manage their Active...
Date: 01/21/2008
MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER (0x8004011d) after installing Windows Server 2003 SP2
Sorry for the duplication, I'm just rebranding an earlier post of mine because many people have...
Date: 01/11/2008
HELP: Outlook 2003 Doesn't Display my HTML Body
If you've developed a custom message store and you can't get Outlook to display RTF or HTML content,...
Date: 01/10/2008
Wish you could wear flip-flops to work?
Working at Microsoft is an experience like not many others. Since graduating from what many consider...
Date: 12/19/2007
Folder Homepage no longer works in Outlook 2007 from MAPI store providers
If you are developing or have developed a MAPI store provider for use in Outlook and are trying to...
Date: 12/19/2007
Free/Busy Appointments Missing After Using CDO 1.21 to Access Calendar
If you have written or use an application that uses CDO 1.21 (cdo.dll) that accesses your Calendar...
Date: 12/14/2007
Stehle's finally doing his OOM series
I've been encouraging him to blog his "Matt Stehle's Tenents of OOM Programming" for a while now,...
Date: 12/07/2007
Tell Us Why You're Still Using ECEs
We want to know why you're still using ECEs as opposed to an add-in. Please hop over to Stephen...
Date: 11/21/2007
Ooh, SNP
We've recently been seeing an elevated number of cases where networking issues are adversely...
Date: 10/16/2007
Exchange Server 2007 SDK July update is now available
Happy coding!...
Date: 07/27/2007
ARGH: Large WebDAV PROPPATCH requests fail with 401/401.5
I had a case recently where one of our products, Duet, was doing a large PROPPATCH against Exchange...
Date: 07/17/2007
YOUnique
Exchange as a development platform is a popular and intriguing notion and has led to several ISV's...
Date: 06/19/2007
Foreign Connectors aren't just bridges over the Rio Grande
Matt Stehle had a great post on building foreign connectors, the gateway connectors replacement for...
Date: 05/29/2007