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Back again with more Outlook 2007 course info. Automatically find the course at a school near you with this link.

One common question developers have asked is how they can extend the view area of Outlook to display additional information related to the contents of a folder.  Our solution to this problem is to use a Folder Home Page along with the Outlook View control to enable you to customize the look and feel of a folder, while still displaying folder information.

One example of an Outlook folder home page that ships with Outlook is the Outlook Today page, which is accessible by clicking on the top most folder in your default store.

Lately, developers have been interested in how they can leverage some of the new .NET Framework 3.5 enhancements like WPF in this space. Hülya Pamukçu has recently posted an article over on the CSD End-to-End Team Blog about this very subject.  In the article Hülya covers how to host WPF controls inside a folder home page and how to leverage the Outlook View Control in the space at the same time.

This is an exciting week for me. My online Outlook 2007 course goes live this week. It's an introduction to Outlook 2007 divided into twelve lessons over six weeks. The quizzes and tests are automated, and there's a discussion area where I interact with the students to answer questions and keep them abreast of the latest Outlook news. If you know anyone who would like to learn the basics of Outlook 2007, please point them to this link so they can check it out. Thanks!

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