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...

Author: rgregg@outlook.com 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...

Author: rgregg@outlook.com 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...

Author: rgregg@outlook.com 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...

Author: rgregg@outlook.com 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...

Author: rgregg@outlook.com 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg Date: 12/07/2006

Outlook Gadgets Now Available

I’m happy to announce that tonight the first two official Office gadgets went live on...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg Date: 06/27/2006

Updated Developer Help

Are you developing a solution using Outlook 2007 beta 2, but frustrated by the lack of available...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg Date: 04/05/2006

Outlook form regions

Outlook 2007 includes a new way of customizing the Outlook user interface for data in Outlook. If...

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg 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....

Author: rgregg 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...

Author: rgregg Date: 11/29/2005

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