Updates after the day-long updater overhaul:
- The csproj no longer has <UpdateInterval>7</UpdateInterval>; v1.2.9
switched to <UpdatePeriodically>false</UpdatePeriodically>, so the
VSTO runtime checks the .vsto manifest on every Outlook startup.
Both PROJECT-BRIEFING.md ("How releases work") and
AUTO-UPDATE-SETUP.md (section 5) now describe the on-startup model
instead of the weekly-poll model that was never operationally true.
- AUTO-UPDATE-SETUP.md also gets two new notes that came out of today:
what the "בדוק עדכונים" button can and can't do (informational only,
pointing at the in-process-update impossibility memo), and the
one-time uninstall+reinstall required when a developer's machine has
a dev-cert install that can't auto-update across to the prod cert.
No code change; no tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the stale "Things deliberately deferred" entries (CI runner,
codesign cert, platform.dev hosting, Mattermost webhook) with a new
"How releases work (current)" section that captures what's actually
running today:
- Production install URL = platform.dev.marcus-law.co.il/outlook-addin/
- Tag-driven Gitea Actions pipeline in .gitea/workflows/build.yml
- Real codesign cert lives in Gitea secrets, dev cert in repo
- Klear visible rebrand boundary: what shipped in v1.2.0 vs what stays
MarcusLaw to preserve auto-update across the 10 installed lawyer PCs
- The dropped Publish/ folder was never the production channel
The "deferred" table now only mentions the identity-level Layer-2
rebrand, which is the only thing actually still open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-contained briefing for a fresh Claude Code session picking up work
on this project from a Windows machine running VS 2022. Covers:
- TL;DR + 4 features
- MailRouter API contract + EspoCRM endpoints
- Tech stack (locked decisions)
- Repo layout + current state
- Step-by-step recipe to regenerate the VSTO host project from the
template (the hand-written csproj is incompatible with VS)
- Conventions + deferred work + open risks
Read this before doing anything: docs/PROJECT-BRIEFING.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Initial repo scaffold for a Windows VSTO/COM Outlook Add-in (C#/.NET FW 4.8)
that integrates Outlook desktop with EspoCRM via the existing MailRouter
v1.2.0 endpoint (POST /api/v1/MailRouter/file).
Includes:
- Solution + 4 csproj projects (host, Core, UI, Tests) under src/
- VSTO host project stub (ThisAddIn.cs, requires VS 2022 + Office workload to fully resolve)
- Core/UI/Tests as SDK-style net48 projects (NuGet: Polly, System.Text.Json,
Serilog, CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, xUnit, Moq, FluentAssertions)
- .gitea/workflows/build.yml for Windows runner CI (publish/sign placeholders)
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (component diagram, threading model, per-feature flow)
- docs/ONBOARDING.md (Hebrew lawyer-facing install guide)
Server-side already in place: MailRouter v1.2.0 — see plan
~/.claude/plans/resilient-sauteeing-feather.md for the 6-week implementation
plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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