Ryan's Developer Blog
App Folders and the new JavaScript picker
We’ve had a busy month of March working on improving the OneDrive API. Today we launched two...
Date: 04/01/2015
Using onedrive-explorer-win sample SDK with store apps
A couple of folks have asked me recently how they can use the sample SDK in the...
Date: 03/18/2015
New OneDrive API
For the last several months I've been working closely with a number of engineers to build a new...
Date: 02/23/2015
Easy MSA OAuth in Windows Forms
Sometimes when you want to quickly demo something, writing a quick Windows Form app is the easiest...
Date: 10/02/2014
I'm back
After a four year break, I'm back in the developer space. However, instead of Outlook I've moved to...
Date: 08/16/2014
Office 2010 Released to Manufacturing!
On Friday we signed off on all of the Office 2010 products, including Outlook 2010 and have released...
Date: 04/19/2010
Outlook Social Connector and Developers
Hopefully you caught the news yesterday at PDC09 that Microsoft Office 2010 beta is now available...
Date: 11/19/2009
Additional Shutdown Changes for Outlook 2010 Beta
As part of Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007 SP2, the Outlook team has taken a new and harder stance on...
Date: 10/02/2009
Using WPF in Outlook Folder Home Pages
One common question developers have asked is how they can extend the view area of Outlook to display...
Date: 01/14/2008
Command Line Parameter Changes in Outlook
As part of SP3 for Outlook 2003 (and included in SP1 for Outlook 2007) we’ve made a change to...
Date: 12/03/2007
Why are you still using ECEs?
Stephen Griffin is asking this question over on his blog. If you're using Exchange Client Extensions...
Date: 10/12/2007
Common Properties on Outlook Controls
If you’ve started to take advantage of the new Outlook controls on form regions in Outlook 2007, you...
Date: 10/01/2007
Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008
I just noticed that the official site for the 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference has...
Date: 09/17/2007
Outlook 2007 GDI Leak Hotfix
If you are running Office Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista together, you might be running into the...
Date: 09/03/2007
Outlook 2007 PIA Documentation Online
Are you a managed add-in developer for Outlook 2007, who's been wondering where the documentation on...
Date: 07/26/2007
Why does my Outlook event seem to stop working
Wes has a good post over on his blog explaining another common problem that a lot of Outlook...
Date: 07/04/2007
Mysterious Errors When Using Form Regions from Managed Code Add-ins
I've been noticing some feedback lately where a number of developers were having problems working...
Date: 06/21/2007
New Outlook Team Blog
We've just rolled out the new Outlook team blog, which is the "one-stop-shop for tips, tricks, and...
Date: 06/13/2007
Outlook 2007 Performance Update
If you've been watching other blogs, or the recently published KB articles, you probably have seen...
Date: 04/17/2007
Outlook and Internet mail support
OK, so this might be a bit off-topic from my regular blog posts, but since I am working on the...
Date: 03/17/2007
PDF Preview Handler for Outlook/Vista
If you're running Windows Vista, or Outlook 2007 on either Vista or Windows XP, you're probably...
Date: 03/17/2007
Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Randy Byrne and I have just received our first copies of our book, Programming Applications for...
Date: 02/26/2007
Updated Samples for Outlook 2007 Developers
Last week we uploaded revised versions of our sample code for Outlook 2007 add-ins. The biggest...
Date: 02/14/2007
Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
I missed noticing that the BCM team has created a new blog, but it's never too late to rectify a...
Date: 02/07/2007
How to access Outlook contacts from a web application
Wes Haggard, one of the Outlook developers, has a good blog post over on his blog about how to...
Date: 01/31/2007
Updated Outlook Gadgets Now Available
For those of you who were excited about the Outlook 2007 gadgets for the Windows Vista sidebar, but...
Date: 12/14/2006
Update on the Outlook Gadgets
Well, after two days out in the wild, some reports are coming in of problems with the gadgets. We've...
Date: 12/07/2006
Outlook Gadgets Now Available
I’m happy to announce that tonight the first two official Office gadgets went live on...
Date: 12/05/2006
VSTO 2005 SE & Outlook Form Regions
I just noticed that TQ posted a sample VSTO 2005 SE add-in for Outlook 2007 that implements form...
Date: 11/27/2006
Converting Bitmaps to IPictureDisp
If you're writing your Form Region solution in managed code, and you decide to provide the manifest...
Date: 11/27/2006
Post B2TR Changes for Form Regions
Shortly after we released Outlook 2007 beta 2 technical refresh to the world, we took a change on...
Date: 10/12/2006
Beta 2 Technical Refresh
I'm always late on posting these announcements, but as of Sept 9, the B2TR release of Office 2007 is...
Date: 09/26/2006
Third Party Add-ins and Outlook 2007
While we spend a great deal of time and effort to ensure that the Outlook platform is 100% backwards...
Date: 09/11/2006
Blog Q&A
A while back while I was taking about forms, I got a number of questions from readers out there in...
Date: 09/02/2006
Nearly a Month
It's been nearly a month since my previous post about the shutdown fixes for Outlook 2007, and I...
Date: 07/27/2006
Outlook Shutdown and COM Add-ins
Depending on how familiar you are with Outlook development, you may have seen previous versions of...
Date: 06/27/2006
Updated Developer Help
Are you developing a solution using Outlook 2007 beta 2, but frustrated by the lack of available...
Date: 06/20/2006
New articles and more
If you've been watching the Outlook developer portal recently, as of last Friday you noticed some...
Date: 06/20/2006
What’s New for Developers
Randy’s article, “What’s New for Developers in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007” was just published...
Date: 06/02/2006
Office 2007 Beta 2
So I’m a little late to the party here, but as you may have noticed a few weeks ago Office Beta 2...
Date: 06/02/2006
Outlook on MSDN TV
A couple of weeks ago Randy and I were filmed discussing what’s new in the Outlook object model and...
Date: 05/15/2006
Outlook & MIX06
If you didn't get a chance to see it live, the MIX06 sessions are all available online now. Christin...
Date: 05/05/2006
More on Custom Forms...
Adam asked some great questions on my last post about custom forms and Outlook, and I thought I'd...
Date: 05/05/2006
Using VSTO v3 CTP with Outlook 2007
If you are excited about managed add-in development and Outlook 2007, you've no doubt heard about...
Date: 04/05/2006
Outlook form regions
Outlook 2007 includes a new way of customizing the Outlook user interface for data in Outlook. If...
Date: 03/26/2006
New code samples available for download
If you’re an Outlook developer who has been excited to hear about all of the cool new work done for...
Date: 01/17/2006
Instant Search and Your Inner Developer
One of the great new features in Outlook 12, as anyone who has used it can vouch, is Instant Search....
Date: 12/12/2005
New Outlook 12 Blogs
I’m working on a future post about using DASL syntax language in Outlook and what’s new...
Date: 11/29/2005