Making Lookout work with Outlook 2007
This article is service 2 purposes:
- To provide a solution to those wanting to use the Outlook add-in Lookout in Outlook 2007.
- To introduce the companion to this site, a far overdue task.
For most, if you’re reading this article, you’ve been a long-time user of Lookout, an indexing / search add-in for Outlook that packs phenomenal cosmic powers. So now you upgrade to Outlook 2007 and upon launching it for the first time are presented with the following greeting:
Sorry!! it looks like another Outlook Plugin has installed an unofficial version of the Outlook libraries which breaks Lookout. Lookout will not be able to load. For more information, see this link: http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10
Armed with little hope and the psychic vision of the impending 404, you type in the URL from the error to find that the site no longer exists. Frantic, you try Archive.org, Google cache, anything you can think of, the page has effectively been erased from existence.
As Lookout is a .NET application, I instinctively fired up Reflector to have a look. The good news, the problem is solvable with little effort.
With that said, it’s time for point #2. About the time I redesigned Codinghut, I also launched a second site titled Only The Best. It has had little to no mention here, but it’s time to clue you all in. Only The Best is a freeware (thus far) review site. Anyone who knows me would not deny I am the definition of a download junkie. Seeing as I’m already doing the work, I decided to launch a site to present what I feel are the best of the best of the free (again, thus far).
What does this have to do with the topic of this article? Naturally, Lookout was one of the first applications to make it on the list. In the process of writing up the article for it, I encountered this dreaded error (previously I had used Lookout exclusively at work on Outlook 2003, at home I run 2007). Being that I had just reviewed it, after devising a solution I posted it on that site. I toyed with cross posting the article here as there is coding involved, but with my recently gained insight into search engine rankings, duplicating content across sub-domains is not something I care to do.
Ok, ok, enough with the chatter you want the solution. For an explanation of the problem and how to fix it, along with the pre-patched binaries I provide, visit this page.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the link above goes to Only The Best, even if you are not a Lookout user, please do visit the site as you will find only the best picks!
