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

Question

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("MAPI");

Redemption.RDOSessionClass rdoSession = new Redemption.RDOSessionClass(); rdoSession.MAPIOBJECT = ns.MAPIOBJECT;

rdoSession.Stores.DefaultStore.Rules - Here Rules property not exist.

The reason is rdoSession.Stores.DefaultStore return RDOStore object and Rules property exist in RDOExchangeStore object.

and i am not able to access RDOExchangeStore object. cause store kind is "skPstUnicode" Is there any way to access RDORules ?

Answer 1

Could be a couple of things up here .. have you iterated through the stores to find the exchange store ? as it looks like that you are not connected to exchange or the default store is configured to be a PST.

Update: to Answer your extra questions.

You can use RDO directly against the Exchange Server i.e Out side of outlook as long as you are online

Redemption.RDOSession rdoSession = new Redemption.RDOSession(); Use the logon method on the RDOSession object.

Answer 2

yes you are correct i have to iterate to find the ExchangeStore. I have also one doubt Can i access Exchange Store from my local system if Yes then How? i am using outlook Redemption currently.

Answer 3

QUESTION:

I want to run the same application using redemption in the client side where outlook is not installed or installed with other version. what should i do in this case? Should i remove MAPIObject from the RDOSession and this will work fine? Here is my code

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = null; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace ns = null;

    **app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();**
    **ns = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");**

Redemption.RDOSessionClass rdoSession = new Redemption.RDOSessionClass();

rdoSession.MAPIOBJECT = ns.MAPIOBJECT;

            rdoSession.LogonExchangeMailbox(USER, SERVER);
            Redemption.RDOExchangeMailboxStore exchangeStore = null;
            foreach (Redemption.RDOStore str in rdoSession.Stores)
            {
                string storeKindName = ((Redemption.RDOStore)str).StoreKind.ToString();

                if (storeKindName.Equals("skPrimaryExchangeMailbox") || storeKindName.Equals("skDelegateExchangeMailbox") || storeKindName.Equals("skPublicFolders"))
                {
                    exchangeStore = str as Redemption.RDOExchangeMailboxStore;
                }

                //al.Add(((Redemption.RDOStore)str).StoreKind.ToString());
                MessageBox.Show(((Redemption.RDOStore)str).StoreKind.ToString());
            }

Thanks for your help.