outlook

Application.ActiveInspector() is Null on Outlook Ribbon Load

Is it possible to access the ActiveInspector at the time of ribbon load. Application.ActiveInspector() returns proper value when I use custom form but does not for default contact form. I need the ActiveInspector to customize ribbon button depending on a property value in ActiveInspector().CurrentItem. ...

.NET Email Content - Line Breaks

I've got an application that sends nicely formatted processing logs to the user. When I run the application locally (debug mode), using [SMTPServer] to send, the logs arrive neatly formatted and look as I'd expect. When I install the application on a testing server and configure it to use the same [SMTPServer] to send, the logs arrive ...

How to access items by "group" in an Outlook VB macro?

By "group" I mean the collapsible classifications that you get when you enable View->Arrange By->Show in Groups. This divides e.g. messages in a folder into Today, Yesterday, Last Week, Two Weeks Ago, and so on. What I'd like to be able to do is iterate over the messages that are currently classified within a given group. Is this poss...

Spellcheck with VBA in Outlook 2007 in a specified language

Hello I'm trying to spell check and send an outlook e-mail using the following macro: Sub SpellIt() Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem Dim oDoc As Word.Document Set oMail = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem Set oDoc = Application.ActiveInspector.WordEditor oMail.Save oDoc.Content.LanguageID = wdGerman oDoc.CheckSpelling oMail....

Total beginner looking for tutorials programming outlook add ins in c++

hello all im total beginner in outlook programming and windows GUI programming in general but have lots of years experience in c++ programming in general ( none GUI ) i need to develop outlook plug-in . and my question is where to start ? what i need to know to let me start can you please give me some useful links to learn ? Thanks all ...

How to use WebDav to match dav:href to Outolook Interop href value

I have previously used webdav to access the sent messages on an exchange 2003 server based on the subject and time and this has worked. I now need to implement another feature which means dragging a message from client outlook (not web access) on to a windows form then querying webdav on exchange to get all the information about this me...

Exchange Server - Global Access

Hey everyone, I'm trying to create a web-based app that can interact with Exchange server globally. Meaning, I need it to have the ability to view, change, delete, and create all e-mails, calendars, appointments, tasks, notes, etc... across the domain. I am using .Net, and have been looking into sinks, but wasn't sure if this was the ...

Adding shared fields to a SharePoint calendar to sync with an Outlook calendar

I have set up MOSS 2007 Enterprise with a calendar that I have added custom columns to. We have synced this calendar in Outlook, and it works great creating and editing events from either SharePoint or Outlook. The issue is that I want to be able to add two extra fields to the New Event form in Outlook that I have added to the SharePoi...

Contact information web standard

Is the a standard which I can use for our contacts? I want to build an application which hosts our clients contact information. Is there a standard I should use so it is possible to sync with as many clients as possible? In Outlook I can find something about "LDAP" can you give any tutorials maybe? I would want to support 2 way syncing...

How to read contact's custom properties in a Outlook 2007

I have a form region in the main contact form where I have to show some custom properties (not user defined fields) of that contact. I am using ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.ItemProperties["customPropertyName"] to read the value for the custom property. But it does not give me the value. I can see the property and its value in Outlook spy....

Code editor plugin for MS outlook 2003?

I constantly find myself sending .NET code snippets to other developers using MS outlook email. Is there a code editor plugin I can use that can help in formatting and copy/paste (something like SO editor? ...

RSS 2.0 feed - set update limit for Outlook 2007

I am generating an RSS 2.0 feed using System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed for Outlook 2007 SP2 clients, and I would like to know if it is possible to set the update limit for the feed in order to be recognized by Outlook client. ...

Is it possible to change the pop3 and ldap settings of Outlook with C#?

Is it possible to change the password and other settings of a local Outlook client's pop3 with c#? Any help is appreciated. I did not have much luck searching. Thank you. ...

Change the selected item in Outlook to next or previous

I rarely use VBA because I hate it. Granted, it's hate from lack of understanding; still it's hate all the same. I wrote code below that is very similar to the accepted answer here. It simply marks emails and meeting responses as read and moves them to the archive. After making a button and key assignment, it has worked very well. The p...

Outlook not processing multi-byte characters when using mailto:

I have similar problem to the one described in this question: I am using the "mailto" protocol to open the default mail client from Java (I am tied to Java 5 for now, so sadly I can't use the Desktop API). Some of the emails contain Japanese text. The strings are already being UTF-8 encoded as follows: private void email(String to, Str...

How to Generate an E-mail Message in Microsoft Outlook Outbox in VB6?

I need to send e-mails from my application. But, instead of sending the e-mails directly from through SMTP, I'd like to send it through Microsoft Outlook. So... How to Generate an E-mail Message in Microsoft Outlook Outbox in VB6? ...

WPF TextBox Not Accepting Delete Key

Hello. I have a WPF application embedded in a Microsoft Outlook 2003 window. Everything is working fine, except none of my TextBox controls accept the backspace key. I've done some research, and the problem exists only when my window is a child of the outlook window and not if it's another window (I injected it into firefox and it wor...

How do I know if an email cannot be unencrypted in Outlook?

When you use the Outlook API to access the Body of an email that's encrypted that you don't have the key for, Outlook throws an exception that says something like "Your Digital ID cannot be found by the underlying security system." Is there a way to determine whether an encrypted message (MessageClass "IPM.Note.SMIME") can be read withou...

Presenting Outlook Global Address List

I need to create a control that has the same functionality as the Outlook To... button on a new email (i.e. when clicked, a modal dialog is created which holds the entire global address list within a listbox.) I have no problems accessing this data, I ahve a list of AddressEntries which I want to present in the ListBox, however, due to ...

Can I add a custom "Send" button to Outlook?

I'm creating a secure message alternative to email for my organization. We exchange confidential patient information with outside treatment providers. To protect privacy, we cannot use email for this purpose. Rather than force the users here to use whole new inbox, outbox, and authoring interfaces in addition to the Outlook/Exchange e...