Development

There are a limited number of decent resources available for Outlook / Exchange development. We have listed some of our favourite links below:-

Outlook/Exchange Development Links

• Slipstick - Good site for all things Outlook/Exchange
• Outlook Code - Concentrates on Outlook development
• Office Zealot - Interesting site for all things Office!
• Programming Microsoft Outlook with Visual Studio .NET - Good list of development articles, etc.
• Visual Studio Magazine - Deal with Multiple Object Versions - Excellent article written by our very own Paul Reynolds! Example shows you how to create an application that supports multiple versions of Outlook using the Office Interop Assemblies

Year View Development Tools

We use a variety of different development tools and programming languages. Some of the key tools are listed below:-

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 - Development environment used for .NET (VB/C#/C++)
• NDoc - Code Documentation Generator for .NET
• FxCop - A code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
• Outlook Redemption - Outlook Redemption works around limitations imposed by the Outlook Security Patch and Service Pack 2 of MS Office 98/2000 and Office 2002, 2003 and 2007 (which include Security Patch) plus provides a number of functions to work with properties and functionality not exposed through the Outlook object model.