Friday, January 11, 2008

Outlook Folder Homepage Customization Sample Code

Microsoft Downloads - Outlook 2007 Add-in: Folder Homepage View Customization

"The Folder Homepage View Customization sample project illustrates ways to host nested WPF, ActiveX and Windows Forms controls inside an Outlook add-in application by customizing the view of a MAPI folder in Outlook

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Please refer to the text in the accompanying article for details; http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107437 [GD: As of my writing this, this link/blog post only points to a placeholder post...].

The download package includes the following two projects:
1. [Download location]\FolderHomepage_OutlookAdd-in\FolderHomepage_OutlookAddin.sln
2. [Download location]\FolderHomepageAx_OutlookAdd-in\FolderHomepage_OutlookAddin.sln

System Requirements

Windows Vista
Outlook 2007
Visual Studio 2005
VSTOR 3.0

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Sounds like an interesting project... I've downloaded and unzipped it (code is C#), but haven't had a chance to look at it much. Most likely I'll wait until the accompanying article is online before I look at it too much (but it sure sounds kind of cool... A WPF Outlook Folder Homepage sounds kind of neat.  ;)

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