MilkSync for Microsoft Outlook update: Now faster!

If you’ve ever experienced problems with Microsoft Outlook disabling MilkSync (doh!), Bob says you’ll like our latest update, version 1.0.28.

Improvements:

• The Outlook add-in now starts up much faster, which means that it is less likely to be automatically disabled by Outlook. Yay!
  

If you’re curious about the details, Bob says this:

Previously, the Outlook add-in was written in C#, which meant it needed the .NET runtime to run. Sometimes the runtime was ‘cold’ (i.e. no other apps on the system used it), and would need to be initialized before the add-in would run. This took a long time on some systems, which caused Outlook to think that the add-in itself was taking too long to start, leading it to disable the add-in. After the add-in was disabled, events in Outlook (add/update/delete) would not trigger MilkSync to sync those changes to Remember The Milk.

To solve this issue, we’ve re-written the add-in in C++ and compiled it into a native DLL. This means there’s no need for a runtime, and now the add-in starts up instantly.

Thanks for that, Bob!