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Christopher Bishop
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30 Day Web Based Outlook 2007 Challenge (Day 1)
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So 5 Hours later I have my little test up at http://outlook.visualstudiotutorials.com keep in mind it has only been 5 hours so the site is basicly to get the general thought process down and is in no way optimized and probally only works in IE 7...

The only thing that is bound to the database right now is just the grid and that is only to pull some random data into the email list...

For those of you just tuning in...
You can read the thread that spawned this healthy challenge here:
http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/t/6321.aspx?PageIndex=1

DISCLAIMER: As I don't want to eat a humble pie although I am sure Cedric and Michael are finding the juiciest one they can :)
The link above is just so I could whip something together "in a hurry" to give me a better vision of what I am going to do IT will change and become more of what the challenge is about, and while it currently "does" follow the rules it is not up to my standards as I am trying to type the code and watch Dr. Who, BattleStar at the same time :)

 

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    Ok so not really day 2 as I only worked few hours over the weekend but here is a little status update (FYI This demo will only
    work in IE7 until the challenge is finished then I will go back and fix the FF problems).

    Updates:
    1: Added AJAX
    2: Added Progress Bar for loading Pages.
    3: Added Collaspable Navigation and To-Do Bar
    4: Added "Drop Down" search area (for inbox)
    5: Added Calendars (not hooked to database atm)
    6: *Added "New Message Notification"
    7: Added LoadOnDemand (with caching) and Paging

    Fixes:
    1: Off loaded the Body (text/html) of the email message to a seperate table to improve cache and indexing speed.
    2: Fixed New Message Notification display bug where it would not always show up at bottom right.
    3: Fixed Double Post back problem with AJAX
    4: Fixed bad cache / compression byte that would cause certain JS files not to be read correctly.

     Thats pretty much all for this entry folks :)

    *The New Message Notification was made using a Infragistics Panel and Simple Javascript.