outlook-addin

Get Mailbox name in Outlook Addin using VSTO

I'm working on Outlook 2003 AddIn using VSTO.Is there a way to Get the Mailbox Name OR NTUserName of the user. ...

Outlook 2007 Add-In

Good Day, I'm trying to assemble an Add-In and I'm wondering if it's possible to create an appointment in a Calendar programmatically in C#. TIA, coson ...

C# How to get the send of behalf email address in outlook add-in

Hi, I'm trying to get the sender email address from email that is send using another email address. The sender as shows in outlook is [email protected] on behalf of User Name [[email protected]]. The MAPI object has a method SentOnBehalfOfName that returns "User Name" but not the email address. Does anyone know how to rec...

Outlook plugin not loading after clicking mailto links

I've created an Outlook 2007 AddIn that among other things has to perform some actions when user creates a new email. I've hooked to proper events and everything works correctly in all but one case. The problem is that if Outlook is not running and user clicks mailto URL then Outlook opens only one explorer where user can compose the e...

Remoting Server hosting in Outlook Addin

Hi, I am developing a software using C# 2.0 that has an windows application and an Outlook Add-In. For IPC, I am using Remoting with Binary formatter. Both component has a reference to a common project "Core" which contains Remoting related class definitions. My add-in is the server i.e. registers the remote object. Now, the problem is...

Help file like Microsoft Office's

I am developing an Outlook add-in and I want to create a help file for it. Currently I am using CHM file. Is there a tool to create help file like Microsoft office's? If not, how can I create a similar one? ...

VSTO: Cached exchange mode VS LastModificationTime

I am developing a VSTO Outlook Add-In that is relying on the LastModificationTime property of Outlook Appointment. The problem is when Cached exchange mode is turned On, the LastModificationTime property auto updates each time I close Outlook. Is there possible solution I can use to get the date and time when user changed the appointment...

Developing MS Outlook Plugin using .NET

I am currently building 3-tired ASP.NET 3.5 Web application which has workflows built in for manager approvals. Currently there is a dashboard on the homepage of the website where all the pending approvals are displayed in a webpart. I want to build a plugin for MS Outlook so that whenever there is a new request for approval I want th...

Access and display web sourced data as 'messages' in Outlook

I have data I provide on an http connection that's essentially message information. I'd like to create an AddOn for Outlook that will consume/interface with that http service as if it were a mail source and display sender, recipient, subject, date etc and then be able to download the actual message and display it. I envision this servi...

Disable Outlook Security Message Box

Hi, I am developing outlook 2007 add in, and facing problems with Outlook Security MessageBoxes. I know that i can disable it from the trust center and set allow programmatic access to true, but i want to disable it by code. How can i disable Outlook Security MessageBox by code? Note: I am using C# and VSTO. ...

Outlook Version language

Hi, I am developing an outlook 2007 add in. How can i know the outlook language(English or French version..) ...

.NET Outlook Add-in: attaching a sent email item to a journal entry

So I'm developing an outlook add-in that basically gathers some info from the user in the form, then sends a properly formatted email to the right person. What I want to do is then make a journal entry noting that the email had been sent, and attach the email in reference. To accomplish this manually, I can go to the "Sent Items" folder...

Grabbing values that came to Outlook from Exchange

Hi all, I have written a VSTO add-in that needs to get the an appointment information from the exchange server. On exchange (Outlook Web Access) I change a subject line of an appointment. When I see that Outlook changed the subject line to a new value, I try to grab the new value programmatically and most of the time it grabs old value...

Outlook ole error 800A01A8 when closing it with more than 10 outlook-explorer windows

I have written an Outlook plugin in Delphi 2009 that opens a database connection and does some tasks to accompany my main application. When Outlook is now closed it raises an 800A01A8 ole error, but only if you had about 10 outlook-explorer windows open. Another important point is that that only happens occasionally when you use File\Exi...

Sending Outlook 2007 Meeting Request with HTML Body

I know that Outlook.ApointmentItem.Body only supports plain and rich text formats. But my requirement is to send the Appointment with a Html body. Currently I am saving the ApointmentItem as an ics file and attaching it to the e-mail. This works but the outcome that I am looking for is that it is received as a meeting request. I.e. I rec...

Outlook 2007 Add-in in Outlook 2003

Hey, Just a quick questions.. I have made an outlook add-in for 2007 version and when I tested it with version 2003 it did not seem to work. Is there any special procedure I need to follow to enable to add-in in Outlook 2003 or it won't work at all? I hope I don't have to create a new one for 2003. Thanks, SL ...

Outlook Addin in C# - How to add button/group in New Mail (next to signatures)

I'm having some trouble understanding Outlook terms (CommandBarPopup, CommandBarButton etc) like what is what in Outlook so please be patient. I would like to create couple of things: I would like to create new group (or just button but i read it's not possible to add a button to an existing group in ribbon) on new mail next to Signat...

How do I get the item I right-clicked on in an addin for Outlook 2003?

I've got a great MS Outlook 2003 addin going that adds some features to the context menu. What I am lacking is the ability to get the item I've right-clicked on. So, in .NET (I'm writing in VB.NET but I know C# as well), how would I grab the item I've right-clicked on? I only want to show this particular context menu addition when I'm ...

My Outlook context menu (add-in) button fires multiple times per one click

So I've got this context menu working out except that the event behind the actual selection of the menu item seems to fire multiple times. First time I click it, it fires once, then twice, then 3 times. So, in the example I just gave, for 3 clicks it would have fired a total of 6 times (1 + 2 + 3). Why is that? Below is my code on how I...

Visual Studio 2008 Outlook 2007 AddIn with WPF Window

I've not been able to find a whole lot on this anywhere. Let me start by saying I don't want to use the old Windows Form. I want to add a new WPF Window to my outlook 2007 addin project in visual studio 2008. The WPF Window template however does not show up. I was following this tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb41...