Thursday, December 10, 2009

Extending Outlook 2010 to the desktop

I have always used Windows shortcuts on my quicklaunch bar to quickly create Outlook items like new mail, contact, appointment, task etc. When I installed Outlook 2010 I noticed that my shortcuts had stopped working. The reason? They've changed things around a bit. What used to be outlook.exe /c task.ipm is now outlook.exe /c ipm.task. Outlook.exe /c message is now outlook.exe /c ipm.note (who knows why) and so on. The full reference is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692172(office.14).aspx