Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for previewing and managing scheduling opportunities. A scheduling opportunity is received. A context of one or more surrounding appointments to the scheduling opportunity is retrieved. The scheduling opportunity is displayed with the context of the surrounding appointments, such as in a mini-calendar format. When the appointment is a recurrent appointment, the scheduling opportunity for the recurrent appointment is displayed with a context of the surrounding appointments.

Abstract: Custom user interfaces are inserted into native applications enabling various presentation formats to be used for integrating inserted user interfaces with existing user interface(s) of the native application. Inserted user interfaces may be presented as collapsible adjoining form regions, task panes, and/or large form regions as part of a tab collection of the native application. Registering the added user interfaces in a structured file in the operating system registry instead of an application protocol interface registration specific to the application enables synchronized installation of custom user interfaces and their controls.