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How to set Outlook contact "Notes" Property from .NET

I need to programatically Insert a contact to outlook Contact using C# application. I am using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem Object. I am able to set name, email, phone, etc. However, it does not seem to have a property for "NOTES" How can I set the notes for the outlook contact? Here is the code I am using: ...

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...

Capturing changes to MailItem.SendUsingAccount property in Outlook

I am working on an Outlook extension that requires making a change to a MailItem open in a compose window if the SendUsingAccount property is changed via the GUI. I would like to be albe to apply my changes automatically, but I cannot find any events that are raised when the user makes the change. I have tried listening to the followin...

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...

export outlook 2007 mail folder and subfolders to csv

What's the best way to export mail from an Outlook 2007 folder to a CSV file? I would like to include mail messages within subfolders as well. The built in csv exporter does not allow the option to include subfolders but otherwise does exactly what i want. ...

VSTO: process mail using newmailex before outlook rules move mail

I am creating an addon for Outlook 2007 that reads a mail item when it is received, and then rewrites it. The addon works great, and rewrites the mail for items that do not have an Outlook rule that moves them into another folder. If there is a rule, it is still fine about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, the rule moves the ma...

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...

Unable to find any AttachmentDelete/Removed event on Outlook MailItem

Hi, I am doing some stuff whenever an attachment is added to a being-composed mailItem, on AttachmentAdd event of MailItem, and things work fine. Now I want to undo the same stuff, when an attachment is removed, and I dont see any AttachmentDelete/Removed event or anything similar. Is there a way to get a notification/event when an att...

Intercepting Outlook category assignment events?

Note this is not a duplicate of this similar but different question! My question is not how to intercept Category create / rename / delete events, but how to intercept when a user assigns a category to an item (contact, meeting etc). I am just starting to explore the Outlook object model, and I'm struggling to 'get' how it works. Any as...

Creating Micorosft Office Outlook message programmatically

I want to create the Microsoft Office Outlook message programmatically... i.e. the .msg file Is it feasible? If yes, how? I know about System.Net.Mail namespace and can create an object of MailMessage class. But how can I create a .msg file using this object? ...

MSI Install Outlook plug-in challenges

Hi, I have created an Outlook plug-in and I am having some challenges around installing the system. The issue I am having relates to the situation where a user is applying an update to my plug-in and has Outlook running while they apply the update via the MSI. Currently a window will be displaying informing the user that Outlook is runn...

Exporting Outlook 2007 tasks

Hi I'd like to either export Outlook 2007 tasks to a file or access them using some kind of API, preferably without messing around with other Microsoft products. What are my options? ...

VSTO for the Mac?

I have built a custom Outlook toolbar option using VSTO which logs an email in a database. This works fine in Windows. However, I’ve been asked if we can migrate this to the Mac for Entourage which I think is the Mac version of Outlook. Can a VSTO application be ported to the Mac? Is it possible to build custom toolbar options in Entoura...

Outlook contacts using Python client

Hi, I want to write a script which permits a user to modify his Contacts, can you help me ? thanks, ...

Gmail like "Send and Archive" in Outlook. How to get to the "parent" email when replying.

Responding to an email with the subject line "test", with this code... Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean) If TypeName(Item) = "MailItem" Then Debug.Print Item.Subject Debug.Print Item.Parent End If End Sub ...returns this. Inbox RE: test I'm looking to get to "test", which is ...

php plain text email formats differently in outlook

I'm trying to align some text in a php generated plain text email. Thunderbird displays all characters as the same width. Newer versions of Outlook however do not. Is there some way I can force outlook to use a "fixed-width" font in the headers for instance? Here are the headers I'm currently using Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ut...

How to develop a form in windows forms similar to the "outlook 2007 send/receive progress" dialog?

I want to develop a dialog using windows forms in C# that resembles the "outlook 2007 send/receive progress" in behavior. I developed most of the functionality but am having trouble when I need to implement the "Details" button function. Essentially, the dialog has a progress bar and tabbed panel below the progress bar. on the right o...

Turn off Always Prompt For Logon Credentials in Outlook 2007 using vbscript

Is it possible to turn off "Always Prompt For Logon Credentials" in Outlook 2007 using vbscript? ...

Parse .msg file using C#

i need to parse .msg files of outlook. how to do it? is there any classes ? i fouund http://www.aspose.com/purchase/pricing-info-step-1-of-3.aspx Aspose it is a third party tool , which need a purchase . is there any other way without purchasing ??? ...

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...