Hi folks,
We are developing an addin for Outlook 2007. The addin works perfectly if
Business Contact Manager is NOT installed. But if Business Contact Manager IS
installed, Outlook locks up whenever we try to do any contact-related
operations.

Example-
One of the features of our addin is creating a new contact from a phone
number. Our code basically does this:

ContactItem contact = app.CreateItem(OlItemType.olContactItem) as ContactItem;
contact.FullName = "Bob Smith";
contact.PrimaryTelephoneNumber = "555-5555";
contact.Save();
contact.Display(false);

This does exactly what you would expect - creates a contact named Bob Smith,
gives it a phone number of 555-555, saves it, and then displays it. The
problem happens as soon as you close the contact window. Outlook simply
hangs, and stops responding to user input. Breaking into the debugger shows
that it's not hanging in our code. Here is the call stack from the hang:

[In a sleep, wait, or join]
Microsoft.Interop.Mapi.Impl.dll!Microsoft.Interop.Mapi.GCHelper.CollectAndWaitIfNeeded() + 0x6b bytes
BCMRes.dll!Microsoft.BusinessSolutions.eCRM.Resources.MainThreadHelper.InvokerForm.WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) + 0x5d bytes
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) + 0xd bytes
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) + 0x36 bytes
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(System.IntPtr
hWnd, int msg = 49796, System.IntPtr wparam, System.IntPtr lparam) + 0x57
bytes
[Appdomain Transition]
[Native to Managed Transition]

Any thoughts? Are we doing something wrong? Is this a bug in Business
Contact Manager?

Thanks,
Martin Dill