Can’t find that email message? These three tips can help.

Hi, I am Roby Kurian, Product Manager for Outlook. How often do you ask yourself, “Where’s that message?” Whether you are a filer (you keep messages carefully organized in folders) or a piler (you keep all of your messages in your Inbox), these three tips can help you find that elusive message.

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Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions

I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality. You can read my previous blog posts about it here and here .  In today’s post I’m going to briefly highlight a few small, but nice, code editor capabilities that are enabled when you install the free extensions (and which I didn’t highlight in my previous blog posts).

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Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector version 1.1

Following the release of the Outlook Social Connector (OSC) version 1.1 and the availability of new and updated providers , we have released a set of updated and expanded content for developers. The Outlook Social Connector 1.1 Provider Reference incorporates content from OSC 1.0 with new additions for OSC 1.1. If you’re developing a provider for the OSC, here is a quick guide to the new provider reference on MSDN: Getting Started with Developing an Outlook Social Connector Provider helps you understand why and how to develop a provider.

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Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective. Mike shows us how easy it is to build, package, deploy and debug SharePoint 2010 customizations by walking through a site workflow, event receiver, visual web part, the feature and package designers as well as other goodies.

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Complete Guide to Making Outlook Faster (Than Molasses) [Microsoft Outlook]

If you are stuck using Microsoft Outlook to send those TPS reports at work, you've already experienced just how painfully slow it can get—but with a few quick tips you can make it usable again. Install Service Pack 2 (or later) While you might keep up to date on all of your Windows patches, too many people are running outdated versions of Microsoft Office (not to mention other applications). You'll want to install the very latest service pack—because Service Pack 2 has fixed a ton of performance issues for users with large mailboxes or anybody using IMAP to access their email.

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ClearContext Brings Outlook 2010 Features to Outlook 2003 2007 Users

It's been a long wait, but the Office team is finally giving the public a preview of Outlook 2010 , slated for release in the first half of next year.  Check out the end of this post to read more about Outlook 2010. But why wait for 2010 when ClearContext Personal and Pro have Outlook 2003 and 2007 users covered already?  Here’s a breakdown of some of the new Outlook 2010 features and their ClearContext counterparts. Ignore Thread Unsubscribe Outlook 2010’s new Ignore Thread feature moves all messages in the current conversation to the Deleted Items folder.  Future messages are also automatically removed from the Inbox.  ClearContext’s Unsubscribe performs the same function, plus lets you review the messages later or resubscribe to a conversation.

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Xobni takes in funding, exits beta

It's also supposed to be more compatible with key products that interact with Outlook , such as Microsoft's Dynamic CRM and Outlook Business Contact Manager, … See all stories on this topic

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Xobni drops beta, organizes your Outlook info faster

Filed under: Windows , E-mail , Social Software Xobni is an Outlook plugin that adds social networking and search features to the email and contact organizer. We first looked at Xobni when the service launched in public beta last year. Today Xobni is dropping the beta tab with the release of Xobni 1.7.

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Importing Charts from Spreadsheets to Wordprocessing Documents

There have been several requests made by people asking how to import a chart from one document type to another document type. In a previous post, I showed you how to push data into a spreadsheet to create a chart

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Silverlight Web Part in SharePoint

Having looked at Silverlight in Office client , I thought I’d round out the exercise by looking at Silverlight in Office server . It turns out that lots of people have looked at this before, and I relied heavily on information from several other people’s blog posts (see below), the Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint , and Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs’s new book

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