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The comments for this article were not migrated when OfficeZealot upgraded our blog engine from .Text to Community Server because the article was just that - an article, and not a blog post.  So here are the archived comments that were once displayed on the original article page: # re: Getting a Handle on Your E-mails with VBA 9/19/2004 ...

One of the trickiest things to get used to for developers new to Outlook programming, and even those with some experience, is figuring out how to get programmatic access to various items at various times.  There are built-in methods to get this access, but sometimes the problem lies in determining which is the proper object to ...

The April 2006 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine (and also to be in the May issue of “Exchange & Outlook Administrator”) features a special supplement entitled “A Decade of Exchange: 1996-2006” that contains an article written by me (“The Evolution of Exchange Clients”).  The article title ...

Outlook, like the other applications in the Microsoft Office suite, can be extended quite capably by most users who are relatively comfortable working with VBA macros. Many people have written themselves some handy procedures to help automate a few moderately difficult day-to-day tasks. However, when these kinds of solutions grow in scope to ...

NOTE:Due to data loss with OfficeZealot's blog server, all comments posted between April 28 and June 8 , 2005 to any of my blog entries were inadvertently deleted.  The end of this blog entry contains the text of the comments applicable to this posting that I was able to recover. Update:The source code for the MSDN article can be ...

I have an new article on “Sharing Your Outlook Information” that has just been published on Microsoft Office Online.  The opening paragraph sums up the target audience: One of the greatest strengths of Outlook is its ability to manage multiple kinds of data. When you're faced with scenarios such as planning or organizing your ...

I've written a new “article“ (instead of a “post“ - what the heck is the real difference anyway?) on Outlook VBA.  This is meant to be a nice little overview on working with e-mail messages programmatically - how, when and where you can do some funky stuff with your macros. See the article at ...

NOTE:Due to data loss with OfficeZealot's blog server, all comments posted between April 28 and June 8, 2005  to any of my blog entries were inadvertently deleted.  The end of this blog entry contains the text of the comments applicable to this posting that I was able to recover. ANOTHER UPDATE:  The content of this article is ...