A few weeks ago I had an interesting demo script in mind where the Outlook extensions in VSTO2005 and IBF together would create an very compelling experience for a certain customer.
When we started trying to implement that, we immediately ran into the issue that IBF requires .Net 1.1 while VSTO2005 requires .NET 2.0 and Outlook can only host one framework version. Which basically meant, end of the idea, wait for next version of IBF. I thought.
When browsing the newsgroups today I came along this post that describes how to host IBF in .NET 2.0. You still need VS2003 for the Metadata Designer but at least you use both VSTO 2005 and IBF in one solution for rich experiences. Which is great news. Now if I only could find the time to build the demo I had in mind ;-).
Posted
Oct 04 2005, 12:40 PM
by
Carlo Poli