Apparently Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 now supports the building of managed apps for Outlook. This is something I've complained about whenever I got the opportunity, I mean, we LIVE in Outlook, yet after 5 years and two versions of .NET, we still didn't have it. This is great news! Here's the Channel 9 video and a great summary post with links from Srinath Vasireddy. Here's an "Under the Covers" look from David Hill. Here is Microsoft Office's John R. Durant's post on it. And a great little samplet post from Paul Stubbs, and another with code from Eric Carter.
Now let's see, what's next on my Microsoft bitch list....