outlook

Disable user from closing outlook e-mail through VB code

Hi There, I have some vb code that brings up an e-mail when a user closes the workbook. I was wondering if there is something i can do to stop the user from closing the e-mail @ the x in top right coner and on file memnu, please find code below.... Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean) repdate = Format(Date, "ddmmyyyy") ...

Outlook is unable to accept french-accented characters in my mailto string?

Outlook is causing some problems when being passed a mailto string with accented characters in it. Changing the codepage for my entire webpage that has this string on it solves this problem, but that causes other problems in the system, so I would not like to do that. A string like such returns a lot of garbage characters: "mailto:H...

drag and drop from outlook to webpage

I'm looking for the following functionality and a push in the right direction if it is possible... I would like to be able to drag an email that I have in Microsoft Outlook over to a webpage and have the webpage parse out details within that email. Is this possible? The intent is to take that data and interface with our help desk soft...

On Windows in python, possibly using the Outlook API, how can I get the full name of a user from their smaller login name?

At work, we have short login names, e.g. hastingsg, but Outlook and I believe other parts of the Windows system also have access to a longer name, e.g. Jeff Hastings. In cpython (not IronPython), if I have the shorter login name, how can I get the longer full name? I have pywin32 and ExchangeCDO installed. ...

I have two lists of e-mail addresses that I paste into outlook. How can I remove duplicates?

Some software I use generates a list of e-mail addresses based on some criteria, but some people have multiple criteria, so I end up with two big lists of addresses with some duplicate entries. What's the easiest way to remove the duplicates, so users don't receive two emails? To clarify: I want to e-mail all people who are aged 50 or ...

outlook and programming with C#

Hi there I wish to use the my Microsoft Outlook Task list in my C# application. Do you have any idea if that is possible? Can you give me a starting point or some tips for this task? many thanks! ps: btw, now I'm using Microsoft office 2010 beta. ...

Can I attach an image from the clipboard?

I have a function which is responsible for generating an Outlook email with the appropriate information. However, I wish to attach an image from the clipboard. I can already detect if there is an image present in the clipboard and use the picture box control to display it. IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject(); Image img = (Image...

How can I create an Outlook PST file using .Net?

I'm writing an app that will manipulate Outlook data. I want to make a backup of that data first and am hoping I could just loop through the contact/calendar items, etc and write them out to a PST file. How can I write the contents of 1 or several Outlook folders to a PST using .Net? [vb or c# no matter] ...

BPOS Automatic Outlook Sign In - How?

I'm looking to implement something similar to Microsoft's BPOS Sign In tool: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/microsoft-mos-bpos,2357-7.html However, I'm having trouble finding information on how they manage to pass the credentials on to Outlook. The main issue I'm trying to resolve, is signing in to Outlook on a non-domain joined ...

Outlook 2007 CommandBarControl.Execute won't work

I recently switched to Outlook 2007 and noticed that my VBA-macros won't work. I use the following code to open a new appointment-item (and fill it automatically). It worked perfect in Outlook 2003, but now the objCB.Execute just does nothing. I tried different control IDs and it only works for some, but I could not figure out why or why...

Working with meeting invitations in the Inbox

I would like to show a region within the Outlook meeting invitation dialog where the details of all meetings that conflict with the current meeting are listed. I believe I have all the code except to sense when an item in the Inbox is of type meeting. The form region is created in the Mail.IPM. I have tried both the MeetingItem and Appoi...

Error when reading Outlook calendar from Rails application when started as a mongrel_service

I have recently implemented something in a rails application that allows me to read appointments of the Outlook calendar. This works sufficiently well. But when I tried to use it in production mode by starting it through mongrel_service, the whole thing stopped working and gave me the following error message: failed to create WIN32OLE o...

WPF Form Toolbar Short cut keys in Outlook 2003 VSTO addin

Hi, I am working on a outlook 2003 addin(using VSTO), which launches a wpf window. I have added menus and tool bar on this form and assigned shortcut keys for them.The problem is that these shortcut keys are intercepted by the outlook resulting outlook default action. Example: Alt+f invokes file menu on outlook, instead of menu in wpf ...

Are there any API to integrate Microsoft exchange server with Java application for Task synchronization?

Hello: I am trying to integrate Java web application with Microsoft Exchange server for bi-directional calendar (i.e. Task) synchronization. Are there any Java Open-Source / Commercial API for this integration? Thanks, Venkat ...

Supporting Outlook 2003 and 2007 at the same time with interop

Is it possible to access Outlook 2003 and 2007 from the same application, using the primary interop assemblies provided by Microsoft? I have read that it is very difficult (if possible at all) to develop for different versions of Outlook on the same machine, because of the way COM versioning is handled. Are we better off using Outlook R...

Addins tab missing in Outlook 2007 ribbon.

I can see Addins tab is missing from Outlook 2007 ribbon on some PCs. In most cases it's there. But in some cases Addins tab is hidden so all addins buttons are not available. Is there a way to display it? ...

Outlook shortcuts style toolbar in Qt

Is there any way to create outloook shortcuts style toolbar in Qt? Should use normal toolbar and try to style it somehow (I have little idea how to achieve this)? Or does Qt provide builtin widget for this? I am talking about toolbar like on this image: http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/outlook2k2%5F01.gif ...

Outlook sent item internet header missing

Hi, I have written a C++ app that sync's Outlook emails with our central server DB. Incoming messages contain MessageID info in the internet header - I use this for key generation when placing the messages in the central DB. However, Sent Items in Outlook do not seem to have Internet Headers, so I am stuck for a static id I can use to ...

MS Outlook macro to strikeout selected text

The task is to apply strikeout to current font in selected text area. The difficulty is that Outlook doesn't support recording macros on the fly - it wants code to be written by hand. For example, the following simple code: Selection.Font.Strikethrough = True works for Word, but gives an error for Outlook: Run-time error '424': Obj...

emails sent with php mail don't show up correctly in outlook

I'm working on a site that was recently moved. After the move all the scripts that use the php mail() function AND have MIME-Version: and Content-type in the header fail to display correctly. They show up like this Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by 10.114.121.18 with SMTP id t17cs128223wac; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:35 -0...