About a year and half ago, the new version of Groove had came out and
it still didn't had an ability export IMs. It drove me nuts so I
started to write my own Groove tool that would do it in excuse to
explore its infamous internals. Ah! What a ride that was! Groove APIs
have extremely huge surface area (which means there are thousands and
thousands of them sprinkled all over in hard to find places). Tons of
them have confusing names, misleading functionalities and put in the
wrong place. The fun part? There is almost no documentation! And yeah,
did I forgot to mention that they are heavy C++ oriented, frequently
late bound and mostly proprietary stuff (they even have their own
proprietary definition for rich text and APIs!)?
If your brain needs some challenge that's the place to dig in to. After
sacrificing my 3 weekends I finally had a working tool that exports
Groove IMs and put them to Outlook without loosing formatting or
attachments! I consider this an equivalent feat of removing nag dialog
of WinZip by changing a x86 jump instruction in its disassembled binary
using only Visual Studio debugger and absolutely nothing else ;).
This tool had been sitting on my hard drive crying to get out for
months and months. In between, I did some polishing up, adding wizards,
support for Word and Excel, creating a help file and even created a
website for it. So now I think it’s pretty much ready and have decided
to give it away for free personal use (similar tools cost $50 something
I guess). Check it out if you use Groove and want to save your
invaluable messages! Call it laziness or ignorance or whatever but I
really do feel guilty not to putting this out early when 3.0 came out and lot
of people SO need it!
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