Survey to a new project

[Pablo Cibraro]

Hi, My name is Pablo Cibraro (www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/cibra).
I'm a software developer of a company called Lagash (www.lagash.com), lately
I've been working in some interesting projects from the Microsoft PAG team.
In a few days I will start to work in a microsoft project to simplify the
development of outlook addins, so I'm like to know the most frecuent
problems and doubts of a developer when he tries to develop a addin for
outlook.
Please, feel free to give me some suggestions or ideas you have to make the
addin development easier.

Thanks
Pablo.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

LOL.

1) Incomplete object model.

2) Lack of documentation and samples for producing a single add-in with .NET
languages that works with multiple versions of Outlook.

3) Tons of undocumented "gotchas" that you only uncover through trial and
error.

 

[Sunny]

Hmmmmm...

1. I agree with Sue

2. Lack of set of tools for work around some known problems. As an
example - AddInMon is free and good, but in some cases does not fit
clients security requirements (no sources available), so it can not be
part of a solution.

3. Still out there are a lot of Outlook 2000 users. Unified and
optimized PIA will be a great help.

4. Repeat of Sue's No. 2

Cheers
Sunny

 

[Pablo Cibraro]

Thank you very much.
Your feedback will help me a lot.