Managing calendars across multiple Microsoft Exchange servers has always been
a problem for those of us in consulting or other professional service fields.
Having to aggregate appointments across calendars maintained at multiple
client sites, plus your calendar back at the home office - and potentially
even an Exchange calendar at home - is particularly cumbersome. Manually
consolidating your calendars is time-consuming and error-prone - it only
takes a couple of missed or double-booked appointments before you realize
that there has to be a better way.
In this article we'll show you how to use Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the
Microsoft Office System (VSTO) to write a Microsoft Outlook add-in that
automatically aggregates free/busy information across multiple Exchange
servers. In doing so we'll dig into the details of the much improved event
model exposed by VSTO fo... (more)