Outlook News Aggregator
January 5th, 2003 by gregr
Good news! Version 0.1 of the Outlook News Aggregator is now available for download. It requires Outlook 2002 (aka Outlook XP). If you run into any problems, please let me know. Thanks for your interest!
A big thanks to Joe Gregorio – the Outlook aggregator currently uses parts of the excellent Aggie as its RSS engine.
UPDATE (1/15): the links in this post have been removed; my logs indicate version 0.1 is still being downloaded. As of today, the current version is 0.6 – you can find more information and download links at the NewsGator site.
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January 5th, 2003 at 2:19 pm
I have considered adding this to Aggie (I’m the guy who added the email support), and it looks like you’ve beaten me to it.
May I ask if you are planning to integrate this direct-to-Outlook feature back into Aggie?
Nice work!
January 5th, 2003 at 4:34 pm
Nice idea, I’ve been looking for an application to monitor the blogs I read and none of them as yet I’ve taken a liking to. I’m a bit elitist when it comes to applications and if they don’t look right, they don’t get used, sod the featurs :-)
However, I installed it and it half worked. When clicking on a post the actual post isnt loaded in the preview, only the title appears. Outlook also crashed a few minutes after installing it :-(
January 5th, 2003 at 11:13 pm
Pretty sure we have this problem nailed now…[more]
January 6th, 2003 at 9:00 am
Really cool stuff. Are you planning on integrating olnews.exe into the outlook plugin?
January 6th, 2003 at 9:08 am
Ok, what can I say other than…
,,,,
IT ROCKS!
January 6th, 2003 at 9:22 am
I’m not getting any content in the messages though? Is that the bug that was fixed?
January 6th, 2003 at 9:55 am
I am getting a “No such interface supported” exception whenever OLIntegrate is being instantiated…
************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidCastException: No such interface supported
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.CustomMarshalers.EnumerableViewOfDispatch.GetEnumerator()
at System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
at olnews.OLIntegrate.GetNewsFolder()
at olnews.OLIntegrate..ctor()
at olnews.NewsProcessor.RetrieveNews()
at olnews.Form1.mnuCheckNow_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItemData.Execute()
at System.Windows.Forms.Command.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.WndProc(Message& msg)
at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIconNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
January 6th, 2003 at 10:08 am
This, apparently, is due to the service pack issue… I didn’t see your comment about SP2 being required until after posting my previous comment. Sorry!
January 6th, 2003 at 10:38 am
Ok, it’s working now with content (I had to muck with some additional Outlook settings). But you seem to have a bug: Every “fetch” brings all the “posts” from a blog I am subscribed to, not just the “new” ones
January 6th, 2003 at 12:09 pm
Hey guys, In an effort to consolidate these comment threads, I have answered all of these questions over here.
January 6th, 2003 at 1:33 pm
I have considered adding this to Aggie (I’m the guy who added the email support), and it looks like you’ve beaten me to it.
May I ask if you are planning to integrate this direct-to-Outlook feature back into Aggie?
Nice work!
January 6th, 2003 at 2:44 pm
Ziv, I don’t immediately plan to integrate the code into Aggie – really I’m using Aggie as more of a class library. More to come on this later.
January 7th, 2003 at 12:53 am
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January 12th, 2003 at 8:24 am
Update – NewsGator 0.4 has been released; this is a major update to the Outlook News Aggregator. Details can be found here.
January 15th, 2003 at 3:13 pm
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March 28th, 2004 at 10:52 pm
Good
September 14th, 2004 at 4:47 pm
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