I've been getting into the Outlook Add-in type project in VS 2005. I think I could really use this to my (and my clients') advantage. You know, give them an application that they don't even know isn't part of Outlook. Anyway...

I see MS has given some pretty good samples , but they're trivial - more or less "Hello World" examples. I need best practices or reference implentations or whatever you want to call it for real-world apps.

For example, I'd like to create my own "first class" folder and have the tri-panel effect. Ideally, it'd be on the same tree level as the Inbox folder. I'd also like to have a UserControl instead of a IHTMLDocument2. Or maybe I don't. I do not get how I'm supposed to manipulate a IHTMLDocument2 object to achieve my desired results.

Any, all and random thoughts are appreciated

Mike