Outlook News Aggregator

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.

17 thoughts on “Outlook News Aggregator

  1. Ziv Caspi

    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!

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  2. Trebz

    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 :-(

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  3. Kenneth LeFebvre

    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)

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  4. Sam Gentile

    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

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  5. Ziv Caspi

    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!

    Reply

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