hsc Releases Outlook Message Parser Plugin

hendrickson software components announced the release of their first REAL Studio plugin, the Outlook Message Parser Plugin. The Outlook Message Parser plugin enables REAL Studio (REALbasic) developers to easily parse Microsoft Outlook Structured Storage (.MSG) files in a cross-platform development environment including Windows, Macintosh OSX, and Linux.

Parsing Microsoft Outlook Structured Storage .MSG files can be a challenge, even in a Windows development environment. hendrickson software components has developed a cross-platform REAL Studio plugin that enables REAL Studio developers to easily parse Microsoft Outlook Structured Storage .MSG files cross-platform from the REAL Studio development environment.

REAL Studio developers can easily access the following properties of a Microsoft Outlook Message: From, Subject, Date, To, CC, UUID, SMTP Header, Body as Text, Body as HTML, Body as RTF, Number of Attachments, Attachment Name, Attachment MIME Type, Attachment Data as Binary Stream, and Attachment Length. Additional properties can be added on a fee basis.


Versions of the Outlook Message Parser Plugin have been tested on REAL Studio (REALbasic) versions 2006 forward. The plugin has been thoroughly tested on Windows 2000 forward including 64 bit Windows 7, Macintosh OSX 10.4 forward including 64 bit Snow Leopard, and Fedora Core 7 forward. The plugin should run on any Intel Linux distro that supports GTK . The plugin is console safe.

This REAL Studio plugin replaces hsc's Outlook Message Parser Component, which was developed a few years ago. Users of the older component can contact sales via the hsc web site for upgrade pricing.

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