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.

Category: Outlook 2007

  • VSTO for MS Outlook 2007 – Using msocontroledit and msoControlComboBox in the Commandbars

    VSTO for MS Outlook can be a powerful way to customize Outlook programmatically. However, the syntax can be finicky at times and I have found a few instances where the programming logic becomes tricky. For example, you can use VSTO to add a text box to the Outlook command bar window. This can be put…

  • 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 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…