VSTO 2005 for Outlook 2003

Paul Stubbs : Announcing VSTO 2005 for Outlook 2003

"Today during Steve Ballmer's keynote speech he announced VSTO for Outlook. Now in addition to Word and Excel, you can create Outlook add-ins using VSTO 2005 for Office 2003. VSTO will create managed add-ins for Outlook that will appear to Outlook as a COM add-in. VSTO for Outlook also fixes some of the problems associated with managed add-ins for Outlook. You no longer need a COM Shim or worry about the shutdown bug. ..."

Very nice. This will make Outlook developer's lives much easier...