January 21, 2004

Project Niobe - Managed Outlook APIs

Simon Guest highlights Project Niobe in this blog posting [via TSS.NET]

Project Niobe is a prototype SDK that abstracts the VBA, COM and MAPI layers into a single managed object model. From here, you can develop applications that integrate with Microsoft Outlook using existing technologies, but develop against an object model that's more in-line with the design of the classes and namespaces in the .NET Framework.

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Looking to the future, it's clear that the advantages of WinFX, WinFS and centralized schemas will undoubtedly provide a new way of accessing data - and will replace some application-based APIs. Until we are able to take advantage of this new technology however, this project has shown some interesting possibilities with today's version of Outlook.

[simonguest.com]

There is already a simple RSS add-in sample, which will no doubt be enhanced by interested parties in the future.

Niobe Sample: "RSS Add-In"

This sample allows you to nominate a set of RSS feeds that can be imported in to folders within Outlook. Items within the RSS feed appear within a nominated folder as new post items. RSS handling within the sample is pretty limited and needs some work (only works on a few RSS versions and types)

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