Reply All with Attachments!

SCENARIO & USE: While using Outlook, many of us like to click Reply to All and wish all the attachments were included as-is. Or we wish we could click Forward and have all the recipients copied in as well. Here is a combo that helps both. Reply All with Attachment add-in!

See the attached Image that shows the 'Custom Actions' button that has 'Reply All with Attachment' button under it.



Learn more and download it from : http://replyallwithattach.codeplex.com/

SPlus [Outlook Add-in] Convert email thread to a Meeting Request

This is built using VS2010 Beta1 and requires .NET 3.5 to run.

Download and Install from http://splusoutlookaddin.codeplex.com/

SCENARIO & USE: When you have a long email thread with many folks in it, have you wished you could just setup a follow-up meeting for it and also include the email thread (with its attachments, in order to preserve the context)? You can do so in ONE click using the new custom actions button – Schedule Meeting
There is a bit more to it - if you want to do the follow-up 1:1 with the sender (when there is just one person in To line and no one in CC), then the meeting room location shows up as the ’s office (Of course you can edit and change it to your office as well).

See the image that shows the 'Custom Actions' button that has 'Schedule Meeting' button under it.



REQUIREMENTS:
I have test only on the following Vista, Windows 7 RC, Outlook 2007 and above. It needs .NET 3.5 SP1.

INSTALL:
1. Ensure that Outlook is not running.
2. Extract the SPlus folder contents and click 'setup' to install
3. Open Outlook.
4. Open an email item from your inbox. You should see 'Custom Actions' button with 'Schedule Meeting' button under it. Click it to see if the add-in does its job!

UNINSTALL:
1. Ensure that Outlook is not running.
2. Go to Control Panel - Add Remove / Uninstall programs. You can uninstall SPlus from there
3. Start Outlook again. Open a email item inbox to ensure that you do not see the 'Custom Actions' button with 'Schedule Meeting' button under it.

Note: If you aleady have a Custom Actions button, with some add-in, the Splus just adds 'Schedule Meeting' button under it.

Try it out and let me know!

TECHNICAL RESOURCES
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms268731(VS.80).aspx

Cheers!
Ashwin

Sequential vs Parallel For loop in C# and .NET 4

Sequential vs Parallel For loop in C# and .NET 4

The Task Parallel Library (TPL) in VS2010 & .NET Framework 4 Beta1 is cool! This helps improve the productivity by little change to the code.

Results from printing the Prime numbers for first 1000, 5000, 10k, 50k, 100k, 500k, 1mil..numbers etc using the regular (sequential) and Parallel For Loop
Results may vary when tried on a different CPU.
Mine is an Intel Core2 Duo CPU T9300 2.50 GHz and 4.00 GB RAM




Build a console app in VS2010 and .NET 4. Add the namespaces System.Threading and System.Threading.Tasks
Try the program using each of these for loops and check the performance.

Sequential (traditional) For:

int iRange = 1000000;
for (int i = 0; i < iRange; i++)
{
CheckForPrime(i);
}


Parallel For:

int iRange = 1000000;
Parallel.For(0, iRange, (i) => CheckForPrime(i));


More Info on TPL : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460717(VS.100).aspx

What's New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Development Team Friday July 17th 10:00AM PST

What's New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Development Team Friday July 17th 10:00AM PST

In this session the CLR development team will be focusing on the core infrastructure that makes all this possible with the new features in the Common Language Runtime. In this session the CLR development team will dive into the topics: Garbage Collection, NGEN and Performance.

Date: Friday July 17th
Time: 10:00AM-11am PST
LiveMeeting:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/0000000379_103/join?id=76P755&role=attend&pw=p%2C%2Fzk2K%7CM
Conf call:
Toll Free: 866-500-6738
Toll: 203-480-8000
Participant code: #198585