[APP] Facebook Outlook Sync for Sense 2.5 - Windows Mobile Apps and Games

NEW VERSION Uploaded (Feb 4, 2011): FB2ContactPicSync_v1003.CAB
Fully skinnable.
Images now fill the whole space.
And the potential for the initial contact crash is fixed.
And the skinning can use pngs with transparency.
And it should be installable to the storage card now.
I developed an app to add the facebook pic to outlook contacts.
Sense 2.5 automatically adds images to your device to be used for your contacts in Sense.
But, the image is not added to your outlook contacts.
I went through the threads that it suggested before creating this thread.
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What does the app do:
Interactive Mode:
For each contact
{
... if the contact is linked to facebook
... {
... ... if there is a facebook image on the phone for the contact
... ... {
... ... ... if the contact already has an image associated with it.
... ... ... {
... ... ... ... display both images, ask user if user wants to replace current with facebook image on device
... ... ... }
... ... ... else
... ... ... {
... ... ... ... display facebook image and ask to add facebook image on device to outlook contact
... ... ... }
... ... }
... }
}
Later, it will also have a batch mode.
After pressing Start, give it a minute. It is looping through all contacts finding the ones that are associated to a facebook account. It stores them in a dictionary for processing with the other buttons.
Again, please use the Thanks feature and donate as you feel appropriate.
Note: initial version had over 200 downloads.
v1001 had 190
v1002 had about 50
I removed the other attachments, leaving only the most recent version to avoid any confusion about what should be downloaded.

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Reserved for images or something
Pics of version 1003

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Reserving Post #3 for bugs or known issues
Make sure to sync with facebook before running the app. Otherwise you will need to click on an eror for each contact that yoou sync with facebook.

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Tips / extras
App is fully skinnable.
If you want to make the button look like it is pressed when you press it, there are images in the program directory for that.
All artists, please post custom images and backgrounds.
Control locations are not editable. (maybe in a future version I get screen coordinates from an ini file.) But, for now, just make images that assume things will be where they are.

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Reserving post #5
Just reserving this incase I think of something else important.
Maybe a change log or something.

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Icon Request
I am making pretty good progress on the app.
Currently it is displaying the image for both facebook and outlook.
Interactive only.
No batch mode yet.
But, I am not much of an artist.
If some of you could make and post some icons, that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
JVH3
[EDIT]
Came up with my own icon.
Feel free to still upload any that you think are better. I can use it the next version.

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I'm no good with graphic design, just wanted to stop in and say that I can't wait for this to come out. It's very annoying that outlook contacts don't retain the facebook pictures after a flash.

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will your app allow the user to pick which facebook image to display as the contact image if the user has several profile pictures available on facebook?

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zeusma said:
will your app allow the user to pick which facebook image to display as the contact image if the user has several profile pictures available on facebook?
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Nope. It just lets you set the outlook image to be the image that Sense Facebook integration downloaded.

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JVH3 said:
I am making pretty good progress on the app.
Currently it is displaying the image for both facebook and outlook.
Interactive only.
No batch mode yet.
But, I am not much of an artist.
If some of you could make and post some icons, that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
JVH3
[EDIT]
Came up with my own icon.
Feel free to still upload any that you think are better. I can use it the next version.
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Damn....you are fast
downloading now, try and give you some feedback (if needed )
Cheers.

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pbeutler said:
Damn....you are fast
downloading now, try and give you some feedback (if needed )
Cheers.
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Ok, downloaded and installed (on device) but get an error abt 5 seconds after having pressed start...
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the app like continuously running or being linked to the update feature in Sense contacts...That way, whenever an update is done on facebook and synced with Sense it gets to Outlook, without the need for a manual starting of this app...
Will be on the lookout for an update, so I can try again.
Cheers,

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pbeutler said:
Ok, downloaded and installed (on device) but get an error abt 5 seconds after having pressed start...
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the app like continuously running or being linked to the update feature in Sense contacts...That way, whenever an update is done on facebook and synced with Sense it gets to Outlook, without the need for a manual starting of this app...
Will be on the lookout for an update, so I can try again.
Cheers,
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Would you be able to post a screen capture of your error?
Appoximately how many contacts do you have that sync with facebook?
There are just a couple things that it could be.
If the facebook image for the contact is not on your device. That could cause an error.
Discovered some inconsistancies in the data that I was looking for.
Currently, it only handles contacts where the facebook id is noted by
<sn>id:somenumber/friendof:somenumber</sn>
But, it needs to be modified to also handle
<Facebook>id:somenumber/friendof:somenumber</Facebook>
It's late. Update will be made tomorrow.

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JVH3 said:
Would you be able to post a screen capture of your error?
Appoximately how many contacts do you have that sync with facebook?
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Hmmm, 'Shake n Save' is gone on the NRG feb 16th ROM...so, sorry, no screenshot, however, it is a standard error:
"An unexpected error has occured in FB2Outlook....
Select Quit and then restart this program...lalala
The details: (damn...have to type this.. )
FB2Outlookcontactpicsync.exe
NullReferenceException
at Microsoft.windowsmobile.Pocketoutlook.Pimitem...ctor(itemld itemld..
<do you really need this? lot of typing > Will do if you REALLY need it
I now only have like 10-15 contacts linked with facebook..
cheers

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pbeutler said:
Hmmm, 'Shake n Save' is gone on the NRG feb 16th ROM...so, sorry, no screenshot, however, it is a standard error:
"An unexpected error has occured in FB2Outlook....
Select Quit and then restart this program...lalala
The details: (damn...have to type this.. )
FB2Outlookcontactpicsync.exe
NullReferenceException
at Microsoft.windowsmobile.Pocketoutlook.Pimitem...ctor(itemld itemld..
<do you really need this? lot of typing > Will do if you REALLY need it
I now only have like 10-15 contacts linked with facebook..
cheers
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I think I figured out what the issue is. A long while back, contacts used to store <sn>id:
Now they use <Facebook>id:
I have modified the app to handle both.
I pulled the original version and just uploaded a new version.
Glad you had the error, otherwise alot of my contacts would have been missed. Thanks for testing.

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Nice effort!
1. installed on device HD2 using ROM from signature
2. started in interactive mode
3. first contact -> clicked Replace With
second contact: idem
4. immediately after that the program crashed with an ArgumentException at CheckInvalidPathChars.
I'll install NETCFv35.Messages and ShakeAndSave later to give more details.
PS: Currently the program installs to CE:\Prgram Files directly instead of it's own subfolder when chooising 'Device' as installation target.
best regards

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HorstDCC said:
Nice effort!
1. installed on device HD2 using ROM from signature
2. started in interactive mode
3. first contact -> clicked Replace With
second contact: idem
4. immediately after that the program crashed with an ArgumentException at CheckInvalidPathChars.
I'll install NETCFv35.Messages and ShakeAndSave later to give more details.
best regards
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Did you install the version that I just uploaded maybe 5 minutes ago?
Or the first version that I uploaded?

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HorstDCC said:
Nice effort!
1. installed on device HD2 using ROM from signature
2. started in interactive mode
3. first contact -> clicked Replace With
second contact: idem
4. immediately after that the program crashed with an ArgumentException at CheckInvalidPathChars.
I'll install NETCFv35.Messages and ShakeAndSave later to give more details.
PS: Currently the program installs to CE:\Prgram Files directly instead of it's own subfolder when chooising 'Device' as installation target.
best regards
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Thanks.
I'll fix that install path tomorrow. Need to get some sleep before work.
I will also verify that the facebook image exists on the phone before accessing it. I'm sure that is where the exception is occuring.

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Second Run:
It behaves the same when keeping the outlook picture. After the second contact is clicked the program crashes with the same errormessage.
The previous replacement seems to be kept on the device and the thus modified contacts seem to get synced correctly to the desktop.

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JVH3 said:
Did you install the version that I just uploaded maybe 5 minutes ago?
Or the first version that I uploaded?
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Probably the first since the timestamp in the CAB shows a difference of more than 1h. I'll try again with the version that is there now.
Maybe using a version number in the filename isn't a bad idea.
best regards

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HorstDCC said:
Second Run:
It behaves the same when keeping the outlook picture. After the second contact is clicked the program crashes with the same errormessage.
The previous replacement seems to be kept on the device and the thus modified contacts seem to get synced correctly to the desktop.
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My guess is that some of your contacts that are associated with facebook do not have a facebook contact picture on the phone.
Could be caused by a friend on facebook cancelling his or her facebook account.
I'll add a check to make sure the file exists tomorrow and some exception handling for anything else I haven't thought of.