Documentation

Learn how to develop custom solutions in Outlook 2010.

• Outlook 2010 Developer Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Outlook 2010 Primary Interop Assembly Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Outlook Social Connector 1.1 Provider Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Outlook 2010 Auxiliary Reference. Developer or API references are extended documentation sets. They usually provide application programming interface (API) documentation, sample code, and other supporting information.
  
  
• Outlook 2010 Technical Articles. Technical articles are 10-35 pages in length and provide detailed technical information and code examples. They may serve any number of purposes: getting started, providing best practices, describing a solution, discussing the use of a given object or method in depth, and so on.
  
  
• Outlook 2010 Visual How Tos. Visual how-to articles are 2-15 pages in length and combine some of the best elements of blogs, video, and technical articles by providing a brief overview, a code sample, and a how-to video. You can read the overview, review the code snippet, view the video, and explore the additional resources.
  
  
• Outlook Solutions. Visual Studio provides project templates you can use to create application-level add-ins for Microsoft Office Outlook. You can use add-ins to automate Outlook, extend Outlook features, or customize the Outlook user interface (UI).
  
  

Getting Started

Learn about the new features in Outlook 2010.

• Selecting an API or Technology for Developing Outlook Solutions
  
  
• Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010
  
  
• What's New for Developers in Outlook 2010
  
  
• Outlook 2010 Object Model Changes Since Earlier Versions
  
  
• Outlook Developer Center
  
  
• Office 2010 Developer Center
  
  
• Office on TechNet
  
  

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