Consolidated list of VSTO Outlook resources
When I answer questions in the forums or ng's, I point people to https://msdn.microsoft.com/office to get up-to-date content for VSTO Outlook. However, the site, as great as it is, displays mostly just official Microsoft content. It's good content (despite the fact that I have written a good share of it), don't misunderstand. But, there are other resources available, and there is no single page that lists what is 'out there'. Here's a list I will maintain and keep up to date.
Reference:
- Outlook VBA Reference
- Outlook Forms Reference
- Outlook Integration API
- WebDAV
- ExOLEDB
- CDOEX (CDO For Exchange 2000 Server)
- CDO 1.21
Articles with code ( or code downloads):
Create an Outlook Business Contact Assistant Add-in with Visual Studio Tools for Office by Naveen Yajaman and John Durant
Create an Outlook My.Blogs Managed Code Add-in by David Hill and John Durant
Create an Outlook Task Add-in Solution with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by John Durant
Create an Outlook Add-in that Consolidates Disparate Task Data into a Single View by Ty Anderson
Use an Outlook Add-in to Create and Mail an Excel Spreadsheet by Scott Hillier
Outlook the Way You Want It—Build Custom Outlook GUIs with WinForms & VSTO by Ty Anderson
An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using C# by Andrew Troelsen
Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide by Microsoft
Articles:
Architecture of the Outlook Add-in Support in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by Andrew Whitechapel
Introducing Outlook Add-in Support in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by John Durant
VSTO's Outlook Integration Makes Building Managed Add-ins A Snap by Ty Anderson
Books:
- Configuring Outlook 2003 by Sue Mosher, Robert Sparnaaij, Charlie Pulfer
- Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Developers, and Power Users by Sue Mosher
- Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and Infopath by Eric Carter, Eric Lippert
Hands-on-labs:
Code Snippets:
- Outlook Add-in Code Snippets (link currently broken- will update when it's back online)
Feature Samples:
MVP and 3rd Party Resources
- https://www.officezealot.com/
- https://www.outlookcode.com/vsto/index.htm
- https://www.devx.com/officeprodev
Blogs:
Newsgroups and Forums:
- microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.vba
- microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.forms
- microsoft.public.office.interop
- microsoft.public.office.program_addins
- microsoft.public.office.program_forms
- microsoft.public.office.program_vba
Get Answers or Give Comments:
- https://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/wizard.mspx
- https://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub
- https://office.microsoft.com
Video:
- Visual Studio Tools for Office: Outlook integration by Andrew Whitechapel
Rock Thought for the Day: I read an interview in GQ magazine about Merle Haggard. I have always treasured Haggard's songs just as I have those of Johnny Cash. I remember listening to one of his LP's in the mid-late 70's and hearing about railways of pain I had not experienced, and it moved me. Songs like 'The Fightin' Side of Me' and 'All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers' or the supremely powerful 'Mama Tried' meant something to me then, even as a boy. Now, I hear something else in his songs, an unspoken secret I learned from my own quiet suffering and pain. It's the same train, a different time.
Rock On
Comments
- Anonymous
December 21, 2005
I have been having a problem and I don;t know who to ask, so I am asking you: I get a Visual C++ Runtime Library error when I try to start Outlook 2002. I have looked on the Microsoft Website and can find nothing to help me. I have reinstalled Outlook several times. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Please reply to my email address. Thanks --Ted