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I found this great article by Rachel Wireman and how-to documentation on building Outlook integration functionality with C#, and it has downloadable source code. She covers, General Outlook integration issues Creating an Outlook Contact with C# Programmatically sending emails to your Outlook contacts It's short and the code samples are easy to ...

Messenger Apps have evolved into a full-blown platform for communication. We see messenger-aware applications everywhere. We have also seen specific application of messenger technology for Customer Service integration. So we have seen messenger invading other apps. How about the reverse? Extending Live Messenger so that it can offer context ...

I'm trying to get back into the habit of answering customer questions via the blog so all of you get the benefit of the answer.  Here's a question which showed up in my mailbox recently: ''I have a very large project in ASP.NET 1.1. If I upgrade the server to ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX, will the project possibly break down in places and have to ...

I thought I'd post the contents of an email that was sent to contactable Developers in the US in the event you're on our ''do not contact'' list and therefore wouldn't have seen this important information. ________________ In 2005, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act changes the start and end dates for ...

Hot off the presses!  Scott Guthrie has announced the new names for the ASP.NET ''Atlas'' technologies.  The ''Atlas'' client script library becomes the Microsoft AJAX Library.  The server controls become the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions.  The ''Atlas'' Control Toolkit becomes ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.  Even better ...