If you go to MySpace you are almost guaranteed to see an ad that is a game. There one’s like “Bush vs. Schwartzeneger” and “Shoot 20 Ducks”. These are really great ideas. They get somebody interested in the game and lets their competitive nature take over. Somebody will be more willing [...]

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So, I have this developed. It isn’t my best work but it works. It really needs to handle when Google Calendar can’t be reached. However the biggest issue is the install. The default installer that is built with Studio 2005 doesn’t work completely. I would provide instructions on how to [...]

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Everybody who’s spent time on MySpace has fought a slight addiction. This is commonly known. The other addiction though is people who willing become “Friend Whores”. TOM IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! Tom doesn’t know you and Tom doesn’t want to know you, move along. The first thing you can do [...]

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If you’ve been reading my other posts then you’ll know that I’ve been taking a few moments throughout the day, when I need a few minute break, to look at what it will take to programmatically add my Outlook appointments to my Google Calendar. This way I can still accept appointments in work PLUS I [...]

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Goal 3: Enumerate Google Appointment Lists (List Google Calendar Entries)
WARNING: I am using Visual Studio 2005 and C# (You’ve been warned)
For this goal I first did some looking on Google’s site. You can get the Google Calendar API Overview Here. It didn’t take long to discover that what I wanted was a Calendar Feed.
If you [...]

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Although it doesn’t appear that you need a MagicCookie in order to fetch the information
that I am looking for in my
Outlook-Google Synch program, I began detailing how to get the MagicCookie
feed. You can use this feed to pull information from your Google Calendar.
1. Log into Google Calendar.
2. On the left hand side select [...]

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Ok, I’ve mentioned Teddy Geiger before. For some reason he continues to fail to mention me. He must be too afraid.
The main purpose of this post is to point out one more thing. I’m a native of Buffalo, while young Teddy is from Rochester (about 1 hour from Buffalo). Everybody in [...]

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Well it seems like Goal 2 was the easiest one. All that I had to do was add a timer to “ThisApplication” class and assign the properties. I wasn’t sure if there was going to be a catch that prevented me from using a timer. Here’s the gist of the code that I used as [...]

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I mentioned synching my Outlook and Google Calendars. Instead of waiting for somebody to do it for me I’m going to start doing it myself. I’m not sure I’ll finish but hopefully I can save somebody time in the future and provide a Visual Studio/Outlook tutorial on the way. I plan on [...]

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I like Google Calendar. It is useful however for my work I have to use the calendar that is built into my Microsoft Outlook. What I could really use is a an application that resides on my desktop that takes synchs up the 2 on a regular basis. This way I could [...]

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