I just came across this article on MSDN about creating custom calendar providers for Outlook 2003. It’s an older article (May 2004) but this is the first I’ve seen it. Outlook 2003 has the capability of using a web service exposed by Sharepoint to pull down a list of events and display them (read only) on a calendar. The idea is that people would use this to attach to a group calendar in Sharepoint and be able to see the dates, etc.
While looking for something else I stumbled upon this little jewel of a link. It’s a table of language keyword and syntax equivalents for Microsoft programming Languages. Very nice….
As I have stated before, the client I am at has recently decided to adopt EntLib into their development standards. It was not an easy decision for them and it took quite a bit of discussion on the matter. The first part that is being absorbed by the standards is the Logging and Exception Handling blocks. The client has chosen to use the MSMQ distribution strategy for logging in order to centralize the logs of all their applications into one database.