Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

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  • Outlook Email Searches Broken by Indexing

    Against any sort of logic, running email searches in Outlook on one of my development machines no longer returns any results for even the simplest searches. I am running Windows 7 and Office 2007 on my development machine. On another, older development machine I am running Windows XP with Office 2007. Now the strange thing…

  • VS2010 Custom Outlook Folder View Including UDFs (User Defined Fields)

    If you are building an Outlook Add-In application with Visual Studio, it’s likely that at some point you will want programmatic control over the information that Outlook shows in a specific email folder. For instance, let’s say that you have code that automatically backs up sent emails to a custom folder hierarchy. So if the…

  • VS2010 Outlook ThisAddIn – How to Get the Sent Email Message

    When writing an email add-in for Outlook with Visual Studio, it’s really quite easy to get the email message object while the send event is in progress using the Application.ItemSend event. However this event happens before the email is sent, so although it can be useful, the Application.ItemSend event is often not the correct event handler to…