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Nektra has released the new WLMailApi v1.0.2

Nektra has released the new WLMailApi v1.0.2, which has many more features & functions, this allows developers to create custom Windows Live Mail plug-ins.

Nektra Advanced Computing is glad to announce the release of the new WLMailApi version 1.0.2 which you can request a download by clicking here. This new version is an update of the official WLMailApi RTM version which has been released over 6 months ago.

Creating addons or plugins for Windows Live Mail Desktop® demands a deep knowledge of its internal behavior, it does not have any public Application Programming Interface.

Windows Live Mail is the desktop email client promoted by Microsoft for Windows XP®, Windows Vista® and Windows 7® as part of the Windows Live Essentials free software.

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The changes for this version are:

* Fixed: Memory leak when moving or deleting many messages left wlmail.exe process running after closing it
* Fixed: WLMail crashed when having an IMAP account
* Fixed: Getting a Toolbar object during the WLMailApiEvents::OnFolderSelectionChange event freezed WLMail
* Fixed the way WLMailApiAgent hooks the WLMail.exe process to avoid WLMailApiLoader.dll to be loaded in every process
* Implemented WLMailApiEvents::OnNewMessageInOutbox event that allows to modify and commit outgoing messages
* Implemented IWLMailApiEvents::OnSendButtonMsgWndClicked which is triggered when a new message window is set to be sent
* Implemented MsgWnd::GetTo(), GetCc(), GetBcc(), GetSubject(), SetTo(), SetCc(), SetBcc() and SetSubject()
* Added IMailAccountManager and IMailAccount interfaces to get the Default Account
* Implemented FolderManager::GetInboxFolder(), GetDraftFolder(), GetSentFolder(), GetJunkFolder(), GetDeletedFolder() for the Default Account
* Implemented Folder::IsInbox(), IsDraft(), IsSent(), IsJunk(), IsDeleted() functions for Default Account special folders
* Implemented FolderManager::GetOutboxFolder() and Folder::IsOutbox functions
* Added Unicode support to main API functions:
IFolderManager::CreateFolder() and RenameFolder()
IFolder::GetName(), Rename(), CreateFolder() and CreateMessage()
IMessage::GetSubject(), GetAllBody(), GetBody(), GetBodyText(), GetBodyDisplayName(), GetFilename() and SaveAsFile()
IMessage: For GetBodyProp() and SetBodyProp() functions, the message must be already encoded in Unicode

Nektra Advanced Computing is glad to announce that we are always working on Windows Live Mail API improvements from all your feedback. Now in our Windows Live Mail API Trial you are able to access the storage folders with read, write, delete, move, rename and clone capabilities. We are also able to append text and or HTML code inside each cloned message. Here is a screen shot of the Message Bodies in our WLMailApi C# Demo and below a video showing more capabilities of our product.

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Seems that the Google guys are getting softy. The last two questions of the Google Treasure Hunt 2008 were easily solved.

The Question #1 is about paths. We have a robot that can move down or right, in a n x m grid. So how many possible paths exists, from the top left to the top right?

It gets solved just searching in Google for “grid path right down” from there you will get the equation that you must run on any language that has Big Integer implementations, since involves the calculations factorial.

Example of our solution for the first puzzle in Java:

BigInteger dividend = factorial( (rows-1)+(columns-1) );
BigInteger divisor = factorial(rows-1).multiply(factorial(columns -1));
System.out.println(dividend.divide(divisor));

The Question #2 seems to be even easier. It involves to transverse a directory tree, filtering the files that verifies 2 conditions based on the path string and the extension string (like .txt or .xml). Then reading some specific line. All files are text files this simplifies then things even more. Nothing hard to any programmer.

Snippet of our solution for the second puzzle in PHP:

// Setting where's the Google Treasure Hunt Directory
$dirbase = 'GoogleTreasureHunt08_11336769377172459175';

// Creating and loading the directory Tree
$tree = new Mytree($dirbase);
$tree->load();

// Getting the leaf Files
$leafs = $tree->get_leafs();

// Filtering to files that satisfies the conditions
$cond1 = array_filter ($leafs, filter_bycond1);
$cond2 = array_filter ($leafs, filter_bycond2);

// Doing the sums at the right line number
$sum1 = array_reduce($cond1, create_function('$v, $node',
             '$v = ($v == null) ? 0 : $v;'.
             '$v += (int)read_line($node->data, 5);'.
            'return $v;'));
$sum2 = array_reduce($cond2, create_function('$v, $node',
            '$v = ($v == null) ? 0 : $v;'.
            '$v += (int)read_line($node->data, 5);'.
            'return $v;'));

echo $sum1, '<br>';
echo $sum2, '<br>';

// Obtaining result
echo $sum1 * $sum2;

So as you see, there’s no complication at all. I would expect some challenge when Google uses the “Puzzle” word. Maybe they aren’t what they were? I don’t know, but I will be expecting some real challenge to solve .

Robot solution:  GTH Q1 Java solution

File transeversing solutino: GTH Q2 PHP solution