Posts tagged VSTO
Generic ClickOnce updates (With VSTO Support)
Jan 21st
I use ClickOnce to publish all my applications I write internally, some of which are VSTO Outlook add-ins. The issue with the inbuilt ClickOnce updates is you have no control over it and it can slow start up time of your app.
So I wanted a generic class that I could put in my common library and use in any of my applications, VSTO or normal. This is what I came up with:
This is the public interface, under the covers most of the functionality is declared as protected virtual so functionality can be changed (which I use to create my VSTODeploy More >
Using Windows Presentation Foundation and Line-of-Business Data in Microsoft Clients (Beth Massi)
Aug 12th
Beth Massi’s articles she wrote for SDN Magazine “Women in Technology” issue 101 has been put online. There are 5 parts and she is thinking about doing a 6th part on deployment.
Check out Beth’s post at http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2009/08/10/using-windows-presentation-foundation-in-office-clients.aspx
You can also find the complete Demo application at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OBANorthwind. I am sure I will pick up a few neat tricks from this.
Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 2
Jul 27th
Now for the juicy post, this will cover the nuts and bolts of putting it all together. I may make a part 3 once I have the time to clean up the code, add logging and other things. The aim of the project after this post is simply to be able to sync and change your RSVP status of a event (if they update their API! See below.
(Installer/Source available at end of post)
API RestrictionsFacebook have decided that only an admin of a event can RSVP through the API, sorry guys this is something that cannot be done through More >
Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 1
Jul 25th
Rather that trying to release and explain my other apps I thought I would write a event sync for outlook that uses WPF for the UI. I will be doing my best to use the MVVM pattern as well.
Requirements:
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- .net 3.5 SP1
- Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.1
- Continuous LINQ (I think I will use this)
- Umbrella Extensions
- My Outlook toolkit I have created
Credits:
- Microsoft Outlook/CRM integration Sample
- Adrian Brown’s Calendar monitor, which I have adapted into a generic folder monitor.
Steps:
- Create a new Outlook 2007 Add-in.
- Add the following References: PresentationCore PresentationFramework WindowsBase WindowsFormsIntegration (needed to host a WPF control in a outlook inspector) JakeOutlookToolkit
- Add this code More >
Joining the blogosphere
Jul 23rd
Talking to Jeremy Thake last night at the Perth SDDN meeting for the month he suggested I really should get a blog and start sharing some of my experiences while developing. It has been on my To do list for a long time now so I decided to get it done!
I have been working at a company called ioGlobal for about 18 months now and have been doing a lot of internal development. The great thing about my role at the moment is I am doing a lot of the IT pro side of things, but spend most of my time More >