Archive of entries posted on November 2011

List all folders in a Microsoft Outlook account

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Recently, I wanted to create a list of all the folders in my MS Outlook PST file together with the size of each folder. Outlook provides that information through the user interface. Unfortunately, it shows the result in a modal dialog with no way to save the information elsewhere. So, I decided to check if …

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Protect a global variable in another VB project

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Developers who have done any kind of programming with the Office 2007 (and later) Ribbon architecture have encountered almost certainly a scenario that resulted in the loss of their pointer to the ribbon. This happens because the ribbon object has to be stored in a global variable and any kind of unhandled error leads to …

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