Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

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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: MS Office

  • 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 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…