flickr4office: office add-ins for your pleasure

building upon the model of Flickr4Writer, i decided to take a look at doing some simple add-ins for Outlook and Office to look at vsto and the extensibility vsto se has offered the developers.  i started documenting some of my findings in part 1 of office dev.  i'll continue that in a later post and ask some questions there as well.

for now, i wanted to let you know that the two add-ins i created are ready for your consumption, source included.

Flickr4Outlook - enabling inserting of images from your Flickr account into a new mail message.

Flickr4Word - you guessed it, same thing, but for Word.

while the naming of these projects is quite lame, hopefully they will show some value (of course if you are a Flickr user).  they've only been tested to work with office 2007 versions of Outlook and Word.  the code demonstrates basically the customization of the ribbonui as well as interacting with some of the different contexts of the office application you are working with at the time.

part 2 on their creation and some gotchas i found coming soon.