Month: February 2019

They say you should start the year as you mean to go on, and that’s exactly what we’ve done here at Microsoft To-Do HQ. We started January with a bang with multiple Live Tiles support and ended it on a high with one of our most requested features—… Continue reading A January lookback→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. One of the major requirements most developers are up against these days is ensuring their code runs as fast as… Continue reading OOM.NET – Outlook Crashes When Using Outlook Object Model in Multiple Threads→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. Recently, I was helping someone with a Outlook item leak type issue involving a Task FormRegion.  The symptom was that… Continue reading OOM.NET – Like a good standup comic – use scope and have good timing…→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. Patrick posted a discussion of multithreading with Outlook Object Model and why it doesn’t help to make OOM calls on… Continue reading OOM.NET Part 4 – Don’t Thread On Me→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. The Outlook Developer Reference on MSDN has great information on .NET and COM interop which I would consider a prerequisite… Continue reading Part 3 – Back to the Basics, MSDN Must Reads→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. Outlook item leaks are the most common OOM with .NET issues that we see and I’ve debugged enough of them… Continue reading OOM.NET Part 2 – Outlook Item Leaks→

Matt Stehle used to be on my team prior and had blogged on the usage of Outlook Object Model (OOM) under .NET. However, his blog is being closed and I am re-blogging his content here. OOM.NET is not a special API set that was created in managed code.  It is the name I’ve given to… Continue reading OOM.NET Part 1 – Introduction and Why Events Stop Firing…→

In my post last May on Windows 10 and the “disappearing” SAC-T, I explained how we simplified and aligned our Windows servicing terminology with Office, reflecting that there are two Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) releases each year. I also e… Continue reading Windows Update for Business and the retirement of SAC-T→