Mr. Speaker

Before a few months ago I knew little of Microsoft Exchange. Now I know a moderate amount. Which is alot more than I’d ever want to know. The most interesting aspect of developing for Exchange is the abundance of not information about it - Look all over the internet and you will find tonnes of information not about Exchange.

This huge amount of not documentation, and not example code has shortened my life by many many years. At least a few of these years went in to attempting to follow the Microsoft knowledge base article Writing Managed Sinks for SMTP and Transport Events.

The rest of this article is for those who are currently suffering the same fate of an inability to compile the 2 dll files: Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.EventInterop.dll and Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.EventWrappers.dll

Imagine, just imagine, you discovered the most awesomely best thing in the known universe. And then, on that very same day, in that very same shop, you discovered the equally most awesome thing in the known universe. And THEN, imagine realising that if you combined those two most best things together, that the blinding goodness of mixed elements would multiply together to create a result of such intense and astonishing goodness as to render all other things in the known universe to be pretty crappy in comparison.

Well, I did that.