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Print all attachments at once using VBA -- Udi Shitrit shows how to use the Win32 to print all of a message's attachments -- no need to know the file types involved.

Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference -- Official Microsoft reference for MAPI development against Outlook 2010. Header files are also available.

Enter the 64 Bit MAPI Dragon -- Outlook 2010 will be available as both a 32-bit and a 64-bit application. Stephen Griffin previews Microsoft's plans and documentation for 64-bit MAPI support.

(Less than) Portable Search Folders -- Stephen Griffin explains why search folders created by Outlook object model code may not always work and offers a partial solution.

How to programmatically select a custom Form Region -- Helmut Obertanner demonstrates, with screen shots, how to create a form region for an Outlook 2007 contact form and add a button to the Ribbon to switch the Inspector display to the region.

Customize the built-in Outlook Select Names dialog (or any other) -- Helmut Obertanner demonstrates how to intercept an built-in Outlook dialog and display instead a custom .NET form.

Outlook Forms Step by Step -- Create a check request form and make it available on the company intranet with this 16-part illustrated guide.

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook -- Eric Carter and Eric Lippert update their book on creating Visual Studio Tools for Office applications to cover Visual Studio 2008 and Office 2007.

Outlook Redemption version 4.7 -- Adds the ability to enumerate nicknames stored in the .nk2 file and an RDOStore2.Searches collection that represents search folders, plus other new properties, methods, and events and various bug fixes.

Outlook-Redemption discussion list -- Yahoo! group for dicussing issues related to the Outlook Redemption COM library

Making a Custom Ribbon Appear Only for a Custom Outlook Form -- Norm Estabrook from the VSTO team shows how to make custom tabs, groups and controls appear only in cases where the user opens a custom form in Outlook.

LINQ to DASL: Changing Appointments with C# and LINQ -- Short video that demonstrates how to use VSTO Power Tools to perform a DASL query on the Calendar folder using the LINQ syntax and then perform additional string value checking with a regular expression

Outlook Context Menus and Creating a Meeting from an Email -- Short video demonstrating how to create a context menu command for sending a meeting request to recipients of an email message. Note: The Inspector wrapper class is extraneous and overcomplicates the project.

How to get the IWin32Window for Outlook -- This C# class from Helmut Obertanner could be used to pass the Outlook as parent to .Net Forms and Messageboxes to prevent those UI elements from being hidden by Outlook windows.

Additional custom panel in Microsoft Outlook -- Lukas Neumann uses Windows API techniques to hack the Outlook user interface and add a custom panel in the Explorer window.

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