The MSN Search Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search are the successors to the Lookout product. The problem I had with them is they do not allow pre-defined search configurations
like Lookout. In Lookout, you can customize the default filter for searches
in Outlook, and create a list of standard filters (recent email, last week's
files, etc.) that you can apply to any search. Since I have discovered the WDS API documentation, which could allow me to write my own toolbars, and this very interesting blog about creating custom "locations" for WDS, I have replaced Lookout with MSN Search + the WDS update. However, for those that are still using Lookout, here is how to make it work with Microsoft .Net 2.0 installed. |
As described in an excellent article at ewbi.develops,
Lookout has a bug in it
that is revealed when the .Net 2.0 framework is installed. The function ParseEx.ReplaceDates extracts one too many characters when parsing the date out of the filter syntax (see the article for the details). |
I decided the best fix would be to patch the function in the
lookout.dll. I used the ildasm utility to create a source file, wrote
in the fix, and used ilasm to create a new dll. |
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 .
Prepared by Pete M. Wilson
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