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Outlook Redemption : How to Access RDORules or rules from outlook in c#

I am using Outlook redemption to access all rules from outlook. How could we get RDORules using Outlook Redemption in c# ? I have tried accessing this using below code Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace ns = app.GetNamespace("...

Checking if Outlook ContactItem has Birthday data

Hi, I'm retrieving Outlook contacts and would like to find those that have a Birthday defined. When I read a contact that has no Birthday defined, the Birthday property of the ContactItem returns a date in the year 4501, using which I filter the contacts: if (contact.Birthday.Year != 4501) { ... the contact has a birthday defined, ...

How to import or create an Outlook 2003 rule (.rwz) with VSTO 2005?

I would like to automatically create an Outlook rule (move email containing something in subject to folder xyz) but dont know how to achieve this. Of course I can create the rule and export it to a .rwz file. This file can be imported manually, but how can I import it automatically? Can I import a rule through my VSTO 2005 Outlook (2003...

Outlook: How to SetParent(_form.Handle, Outlook.Handle) without Paint issues?

I would like to set the top level window handle of Outlook to be the parent of a Settings form in my add-in (so it appears on top, stays in Outlook, etc). Using SetParent in other Office apps works fine, but in Outlook I get rendering errors. The form doesn't repaint correctly when Outlook is the parent (so if I drag it around or click...

redemption give exception in m/c do not have outlook or have outlook express

Hi, i have created an application that access Exchange Server using Redemption. it works fine in my machine ( i have outlook 2007 at my machine) but when i run same application in other system containing outlook express it gives me the following error: creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID{ } from the IClassFatory failed...

Pass parameter to Outlook Script

I am trying to run a script on a outlook email message. I want to be able to pass a parameter to the VB script. I was trying to make the script do different things based on which outlook folder the message was moved to. But in the outlook rules the "Run a script" seems to always be the first action that is performed. So when the script r...

Receiving (dragged and) dropped Outlook contacts in C#?

Hello, I'm developing an application that needs to perform some processing on the user's Outlook contacts. I'm currently accessing the list of Outlook contacts by iterating over the result of MAPIFolder.Items.Restrict(somefilter), which can be found in Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. In my application, my user needs to choose several...

Script to modify outlook (2003) contacts

I'm trying to clean up my outlook 2003 contacts, which has become a rather ugly mess of various formatting, etc. Basically, I have a bunch of contacts, in the form of either: 0xxxxxxxxx [ten digits, starting with 0] 0xxxxxxxx [nine digits, starting with 0] 0xxxxxxxx (xxxxx) [the same nine digits above with the last five repeated in par...

Is there no way to obtain sender's emailId from outlook calender data using Microsoft.Office.Interop , c#.net

I want to get the sender's emailId. I am able to read all the data of calender by the below code but not the sender's emailId. using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlook = new Application(); Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace oNS = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI"); oNS.Logon(Missin...

Creating outlook item with custom Message Class IPM.CustomClass

I am using VSTO 3.0 for outlook2003 addin. Is it possible to create an item with custom Message Class IPM.CustomClass. The following article mentions about form configuration files to create custom item IPM.Help. Is it possible to create a custom Outlook Form and register it against custom message class. BTW it is possible to create an...

Detecting outlook 2007 client in email

Is it possible to detect the email client in an html message? Specifically outlook 2007 Update My users have access to an online system that really has nothing to do with email, but in this system they can all communicate with themselves. My app - takes messages from this system, and then sends it via an email instead. Now I need a...

Disable/Hide in built Send button in Outlook form

I am working on Outlook Addin developed in C# and VS-2008. In this we are having our own custom form .oft On this form we have our custom “Send” button on click event of it our processing continues. Now the problem we are facing is we want to disable or hide the built-in send button of Outlook on the Ribbon. Also we want to disable or h...

How to monitor Outlook mail received event from .NET

I have a requirement to write an application which will allow users to run selected scripts when a mail with a certain subject is received from a certain address. Basically the application should monitor mail arriving in the outlook (Exchange server 2007). How can it be done? Any idea would be helpful. Basically, I need to keep track of...

Sync list with outlook only with items in current view.

Hello. Currently outlook takes all list data and synchronises it with outlook. Is it possible and how to synchronise only items in a specific view? I`m only interested in my items in the list. ...

Outlook 2007 plugin

I am about to embark on my first outlook 2007 plugin. I would like to create a new tool bar that will have a button that will initially be disabled. When the user selects a message the button should be enabled... but only if the email is of a certain type of email... This is where I need your expert advice, is there a way to quickly...

Email headers getting lost when the email is forwarded

I have decided to use custom headers in email message.Headers.Add("Origin", "My Company"); The problem is that when the email is forwarded these original headers seem to get lost, is there a way to ensure the original headers are kept during a forwarding operation. Either this... or a more permanent way to store values in an html f...

Import outlook contacts from a webpage with an Java Applet or ActiveX Control

Hi I want to import Outlook Contacts of a user when he accessed the webpage with a Java Applet or an ActiveX Control. Is there any library to access the contacts or I can copy the .pst file on my server and then parse it and find the contacts ? I found Java Outlook Connector http://www.moyosoft.com/joc/ Thank you ...

Modify Outlook Form Code programatically

Anybody know of a way to programatically get at outlook form code ? To clarify from one of the comments - Outlook form code is the VBA code that sits behind the form - it can be customised in the form design mode to do pretty much what the user needs to do. Our product relies heavily on form code, but certain bits of it need to be cust...

Microsoft Office Interop Assembly references.

I have an application developed in Visual Studio 2005 which I am deploying using ClickOnce. My solution contains two projects - a user interface layer coded in VB, and a class library coded in C#. My C# class library has some code that uses the Outlook and Excel Interop Assemblies (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook and Microsoft.Office.I...

Automate collection of data from outlook .msg files to excel field

My firewall sends me a notifcation to my email every time a policy is violated. I have about 2500 emails in .msg format that I want to put into one excel document. Basically I am looking for a way to automate processing each .msg file and putting it on a new line in an excel document. All 2500+ .msg files are in a single folder. I un...