Poom .Net - Access Pocket Outlook Databases from .NET CF

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handylabs.com/products/poomnet.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.handylabs.com/products/poomnet.aspx</a><br /><br /></div>"Poom .Net introduces an easy way for you to work with Appointments, Contacts and Tasks features of Pocket Outlook. Now you have ideal assistant to build application onto Pocket Outlook functionality. The Poom .Net has all the features you will need to propel your .NET Compact Framework development forward and produce cutting edge PIM applications in the shortest time possible. Object Model used in the product grows out in-depth study of the Pocket Outlook Object Model. Used data types correspond to 'Class Library Design Guidelines' remaining as much as possible approached to the original POOM."<br /><br />If you're doing POOM access within a .NET CF application, you might want to check this library out -- a Release Candidate was just announced.

[Scott R]

$38 minus a $12 early-bird discount, so $26 now or $38 later. I could live with that, though I still find it absolutely absurd that this basic functionality isn't in-the-box with VS.NET. Does MS actually want people to use .NET to write PPC apps or not?

Still, congrats to the enterprising 3rd party developers for filling this gap.

Scott

[Alex1234]

I really don't think it worth that much since VS 2005 will include all that
plus SMS support for free :)

I've been using the preview editon for some time, quite impressive :)

[NeilE]

I could live with that, though I still find it absolutely absurd that this basic functionality isn't in-the-box with VS.NET. Does MS actually want people to use .NET to write PPC apps or not?

Scott, we are working hard at delivering this for our next release. We've talked a bit about our plans at MDC, and will repeat the info at TechEd/MDC Europe. We've been blogging a bit about the design as well at http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/.

[Scott R]

Scott, we are working hard at delivering this for our next release. We've talked a bit about our plans at MDC, and will repeat the info at TechEd/MDC Europe. We've been blogging a bit about the design as well at http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/.Glad to hear it. My work finally got me a copy of VS.NET 2003 and I'll eventually be digging into it more.

Scott

[Andrey_Sh]

I really don't think it worth that much since VS 2005 will include all that
plus SMS support for free :)

I've been using the preview editon for some time, quite impressive :)

Will VS 2005 (.Net CF 2.0) include things like POOM folder change notifications or menu extensions support ? And the COM model of Pocket Outlook did not provide a simple way to work with categories. Is the categories list accessible in the managed version ?

[Peter Foot]

There will be a new managed POOM API introduced in the next version of Windows Mobile. Details were announced at MDC and will include SMS and Mail integration and performance improvements, no details on Categories support.

The only difference with using POOM in VS2005 for existing devices will be the ability to work directly with the COM object without a wrapper library (.NETCF v2.0 will have fully integrated COM Interop support which is missing with v1.0)

Peter