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I've tried following the instructions to manually create the right registry and installing certificates with no luck, is the issue that the certificate of the application expired in 2022?

The current code steals focus from the active window when the reminder is shown. This isn't very nice when the user is typing and might lead to inadvertently closing the window (Pressing Enter while typing will Dismiss).

This also happens when the form is reactivated.

Is there a way to change this?

ChatGPT suggests the following change for the reactivation:

private void timerTick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    updateStartTime();

    // Close the form 2 hours after the meeting ends
    if (DateTime.Now > meeting.EndTime + new TimeSpan(2, 0, 0))
        Close();
    else if (DateTime.Now > reactivateTime)
    {
        // Update the next reactivation time
        reactivateTime = DateTime.Now + reactivateTimeSpan;

        // Restore the form if minimized, without forcing it to take focus
        if (WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized)
        {
            logger.Debug("Restoring reminder window after timeout");

            // Restore the window without activating it
            ShowWindow(this.Handle, SW_RESTORE); // SW_RESTORE = 9, needs PInvoke setup
        }
    }
}

// You'll need to use Platform Invocation (PInvoke) to call ShowWindow.
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);

The options dialog limits the default reminder time to a max of 100 seconds. Could this value be increased to int max?

I looked through the code but didn't see the limit of 100 seconds hardcoded anywhere or I would have tried to fix this myself.

BTW, thanks for this tool. It's very useful!

Installing on Windows 10 running Office 365 and received the following error when attempting to install:

Customized functionality in this application will not work because the certificate used to sign the deployment manifest for Outlook BetterReminders or its location is not trusted. Contact your administrator for further assistance.

After following the directions this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/how-to-configure-inclusion-list-security?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=vs-2019
I was able to install successfully using these values:

Internet = AuthenticodeRequired
UntrustedSites = Disabled
MyComputer = Enabled
LocalIntranet = Disabled
TrustedSites = Enabled

This seems prohibitive for many users. Can this be simplified?

Very useful!
I´ve added a regex append for german meetings:
(Join .[Mm]eeting <(?[^>]+)>|An .[Bb]esprechung teilnehmen <(?[^>]+)>)

Please add some documentation to this, for someone who isn´t firm with the code and just uses the addin.

Thanks in advance for your coding efforts! It saves a lot of time for opening meeting links

Could you clarify in the README whether this project is Windows-only, or cross-platform? I assume it's Windows-only since the installer is a .exe, is that correct?

Thank you for this code, just found it and it's perfect.

Feature request: send a post to a specified url that includes the subject/time/etc whenever a reminder is triggered (whenever the popup window appears?).

Use case: have a script on my webserver (or even just an aws lambda) that just re-sends the data a mobile carrier's sms gateway which would make a phone alert whenever there's a reminder event. There's nothing both free+private that does that!

If the reminder is in the foreground and I try to open an attachment from another email then everything locks up - the only way to get out is to kill Outlook in task manager. I'm guessing the the problem is that Outlook's confirmation of Open/Save/Cancel when you open certain attachments (.docx, .xlsx, etc) appears behind the reminder and there is no way to get to it.

On a plus point, thank you so much for this utility. Been a game changer for me on meeting reminders, makes a big difference

          "This tool is great, and I like the ability to have 10 or 15 minute reminders. However, it seems to arbitrarily switch back to 60 second reminders even after I've configured it for 15 minutes, and it works for a while. Then, it goes back. I work with Kevin, and he says he's experienced it too. I'm happy to discuss if needed." that sounds like a different bug report to this one? If we want to discuss it further please create a separate issue. 

BTW I've experienced it too... and I can't see why it should happen, the code isn't doing anything weird with the preferences so feels like an Outlook bug rathe than something easily fixable on this side. Maybe it's worth googling to see if others are hitting this with other COM plugins for Outlook? (I should mention that unfortunately I don't have much time these days to work on this, so if someone can figure out a solution I'd gladly accept a PR but am unlikely to be able to debug it myself)

Originally posted by @ben-spiller in #4 (comment)