Outlook Developer News
Outlook 2007 Programming chapters available on MSDN
Three chapters from Sue Mosher's Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming book are now available on MSDN:
Sample code for these chapters is available from the get Sue's code link at the top of the page.
Outlook 2007 performance improvements in SP2
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 targets Outlook with a long list of performance improvements related to .ost and .pst files, startup, shutdown, and folder switching. For details, see:
Outlook 2010: No support for Exchange client extensions
Back before Microsoft extended Outlook with support for add-ins, beginning with Outlook 2000, developers added functionality to Outlook by building Exchange client extensions -- or ECEs -- using the Extended MAPI programming interface. Microsoft in fact built its own ECEs to manage such Outlook features as deleted item recovery.
Beginning with Outlook 2010, ECEs will not load in Outlook, according to Randy Byrne of the Outlook team. Randy provides more background on ECEs in his article for the Outlook team blog, where he explains the options that ECE developers face if they want to redesign their applications to work in Outlook 2010 and asks for your feedback, especially your concerns about parity between ECE and add-in capabilities.
Convert a business form to an Outlook custom form
Have you ever wanted to convert a business form to electronic transmission using Outlook? In a detailed step-by-step walkthrough, Jimmy shows you how, with plenty of screen shots for every procedure, including tricky techniques like tab order and validation.
The walkthrough is for a message form, so it assumes that the organization has an Exchange server where the forms can be published, but the basic form design methods are applicable to any type of form.
Another round of sample VSTO add-ins for Outlook
Here are more sample add-ins using Visual Studio 2008 and Outlook 2007:
From the Forums
| moving contacts |
| I am trying to "import" a distribution list sent in an email to my contacts folder. the directions say to select the attachment in the email and drop into the contacts folder but that doesn't work. is there a way to do this? thanks!!! |
| Searching for EntryID using DASL |
| Hi,
I'm trying to make a list of opened mail items with the intention of reopening them the next time Outlook starts.
I can loop through the Application.Inspectors collection, use TypeOf to identify mail items, and then note their EntryID.
But... |
| Combo Box track changes |
| Hello. Is it possible to to keep track of the changes of several combo boxes values preferably showing the history of changes in another control (doesnt matter what)? For instance if a user selects a value from a combo box saves the form but returns to... |
| Prevent custom Tasks from appearing in To-Do... |
| I have an add-in that creates a custom task (IPM.Task.Deliverable). I need to be able to keep tasks of this type from being shown on the To-Do Bar. I think this has to be possible because Business Contact Manager does this with their "Business Projects".... |
| VBA Outlook app - Keeping a connection open... |
| I'm doing a bit of work with an Outlook VBA application that a colleauge created. It's fairly basic, just connects to a sql server and runs some commands, depending on what the user is changing etc. The problem we're having is in trying to speed it up.... |
| GetOccurrence |
| I am having a problem with the GetRecurrencePattern.GetOccurrence.
For now I am calling this on a recurrence that I know exists, I'll deal with viariables later! ;)
If I call the following code
'Access the items in the Calendar folder to locate
... |
| Trapping open mail item event |
| Hi
I am new to creating ol2003 add-in using vs2008. Is there a code example on how to trap event when user opens a mail item in OL so I can choose to either allow user opening of the item or give other options as appropriate?
Many Thanks
Regards
... |
| MultiThreading and Outlook |
| Hi
I am reading Emails from outlook in my C#.NET windows application. I am Reading emails from Multiple Mailboxes using GetSharedDefaultFolder method.
oNS.Logon("admin", "pwd", false, false);
oRep = oNS.CreateRecipient(cUser);
... |
| Run Macro to send email with attachment every... |
| I am trying to have this macro run every 5 minutes after I run the macro for the first time, and continue running every 5 minutes until I close Outlook. I found many examples on how to do this in excel but not in outlook.
Sub SendMail()
Dim olApp... |
| Surpressing dialog box when connecting to... |
| Hello,
I've got an interesting problem... I'm running Ruby on Rails on Windows Server 2003 (using Apache though, not IIS) and I have an app that does a test to see if the user provided MAPI credentials are valid in MS Exchange. If the credentials are... |
