outlook

Is it possible to open a new calendar appointment, like the mailto tag but for calendar?

Hi Guys, I was just wondering if there is a way of doing this so the mail client opens up with the Calendar and you can half fill out the details. I don't want to just silently create it and send it i want the window to pop up with the calendar appointment screen and the can edit as necessary. I am using PHP and Outlook 2010. Thank y...

Recent search functionality

Hi, I am working on C#.Net windows application. Here i want to implement search functionality as like as Microsoft outlook 2007 instant search. This functionality have "Recent Searchs", i want to listout last 20 searchs. These 20 search items where i have to store(file/db) and how to bring . Thanks ...

Outlook olMailItem.Attachments.Add - does an attachment have to be on the filesystem?

Is there a way to add an attachment to an email you're sending out without the attachment being on the filesystem? From reading over the DOM (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175153%28office.12%29.aspx) it says that the attachment source can be either a file path or "an Outlook item that constitutes the attachment". I don't use...

outlook security in asp.net webpage

I used http://www.everythingaccess.com/tutorials.asp?ID=Outlook-Send-E-mail-Without-Security-Warning , to finish my first ms access vba app that sends multiple notifications via outlook, without security pop-up. Now I want to make a WEB BASED version of it. So, using asp.net & mysql instead of vba & access raises certain questions. ...

Time that an Outlook MailItem was read or flagged

I'm developing a small add-in for Outlook 2010 using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook assembly. As part of my add-in, I'd like to be able to determine the date/time a mail item was last marked read or flagged for follow-up. I thought that the LastModificationTime property of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem class might...

Design Pattern For Syncing Two Applications

Please don't judge me for what I'm doing because I realise it's a bizzare thing to do but my Boss wants it as an internal tool. I needed to Sync the tasks with a Microsoft Project File with an outlook calendar via an outlook add on. The add on takes tasks that don't have any sub tasks and places them in the calendar spanning the time o...

Create Outlook Object with Firefox

Hi, with ActiveX I can create an Outlook instance and start a new HTML e-Mail. Here is the sample code: var outlookApp = new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application"); var nameSpace = outlookApp.getNameSpace("MAPI"); mailFolder = nameSpace.getDefaultFolder(6); mailItem = mailFolder.Items.add('IPM.Note.FormA'); mailI...

Embedded Image shown as AT00001.bin in Office Outlook Web Access

I am embedding image(s) inside the body of an email and then mailing it. When I view such a received email from my Outlook client installed on my local machine I am able to view all the content along with the embedded image(s) exactly the way I had sent it. But when I try to view the same email through the Outlook Web Access, except the ...

Open Microsoft Outlook from winforms C# (.net 3.5) application in reply mode.

I open outlook from my Winfoms application. I want to open outlook in reply mode. How can I do this. Thanks. ...

Implement Task Recurrence Pattern in .NET like Outlook?

Hi,I have to implement Scheduler like outlook in my .NET application.I have already started working on it but I can't implement Recurrence Pattern.please suggest me that how could i achieve this functionality. how to save task with Recurrence in database? I found this RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX but unfortunately this controller is com...

Extending my Outlook VBA code to use Free/Busy and schedule appts.

I sometimes travel internationally and when I do, I have to meet with 5 to 10 internal collegues. Till now, what I do is use the following code to send out introductions and see when they may be free to meet. I put their first and last names in Excel, as well as whether or not I've met them before. Sub CreateInvite(lngDuration As Long, ...

How do I access recipients for an Outlook mail message when using GetTable?

For performance, I am enumerating an Outlook mail folder using GetTable(). This gives me a collection of Row objects I can enumerate to get specific properties in the given folder. I can control the coluumns in my result using the Columns collection of the Table before I begin enumerating. Overall, this works fine. However, I can't f...

OpenMsgStore fails with MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER in Remote Desktop session

I'm developing a window service to send email through MAPI, utilizing the MAPI33.dll library. I installed the service in Windows Server 2003 and it works well, even with a MS Outlook application running in foreground. However, when I login into the server through Remote Desktop session, I'm getting error MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER at the O...

Can I fire an Outlook 2003 macro when the user creates a new blank message

Hi, All I've found so far are events that get fired when the user receives a message, or hits the send button, but nothing that gets fired when the user first creates a blank, new email before setting the TO field and writing the message etc. Is there any way to do that? Cheers, Dave --Trindaz on Fedang #outlook-2003-macros ...

PowerShell to Open Outlook, Make Visible

My mission is to graduate from using PowerShell to create an instance of Outlook to simply viewing, or making visible the process that I can see in the TaskManager. To Digress, this works for Word, but not if I substitute Outlook. for Word. $MsApp = New-Object -comObject Word.Application $MsApp.Visible = $true I have checked the met...

Outlook MailItem opened from standalone file, or not?

I'm developing an Outlook addin in C# and have a problem distinguishing mails opened from a folder (Inbox, Sent etc) from mails opened from a standalone .msg file. I've tried inspecting the Parent property, but it shows Inbox for both kinds. Any ideas out there? /Sam ...

.Net - Email sent through outlook should update database

We have to build a small grievance report system. In this users enters their grievance on a ASP.Net page. An email is sent to particular individual of a department. When this individual opens this email in outlook and responds a field in a SQL server table needs to be updated. How to accomplish this SQL Server update? Platform : .Net...

Best way to send an email to a dynamic group of addresses with Outlook

I am developing an intranet application in PHP with the Zend Framework. One of the features the client would like to have is the ability to click a link and have Outlook open a new message window addressed to everyone in a specific group. So far I have been using a mailto link and comma separating the addresses, but this doesn't work i...

Outlook 2007 - Custom properties dissapear on send where they arrive

Hello, I have an outlook add in project that sets custom properties to mails in the inspector. I have a mail item in Outlook 2007 with custom properties, I try and send it to my own address, and then receive it without the custom properties. I have verified that the user properties are in the mail in the send event. I read somewhere that...

Create a TextBox similar to MS Outlook email recipient TextBox

Hello, I want create a UserControl that is similar to the MS Outlook 2010 recipient TextBox. As I have never done something similar before I would need some good input/ideas how to achieve that. Just some guidance that I can walk along the route... My requirements are this: Enter the name of a guest like "Ro...." and I got suggested ...