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VSTO - Importing Google contacts to Outlook 2007

2/27/2011
.NET, C#, VSTO
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For a long time I have been using Outlook to manage my contacts and appointments. I always synchronized my mobile phone with Outlook. After buying an Android device things have changed.
Now I use Google Contacts and Google Calendar to manage my contacts and appointments. Since I still use Outlook I need an easy way to synchronize Google with Outlook. Google provides GoogleCalendarSync to synchronize your calendar, but synchronizing contacts is only available for business customers.
In this post I will provide an Outlook addin which imports your Google contacts to Outlook.



VSTO - Speech recognition in Outlook Addin with .NET

1/6/2010
.NET, C#, VSTO
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In this article I will show how you could create an Outlook Addin that enables you to enter the recipients of an email by speech.
First we setup the speech recognition engine with the contacts from the address book. Then we listen to the relevant events to start and stop speech recognition automatically.