Posts Tagged ‘Object model’
Don't stumble over a stone working with the PropertyAccessor and StorageItem classes in Outlook 2007
Eugene Astafiev | November 21st, 2008
There are plenty of articles in the web dwelling upon new possibilities of Outlook 2007 programming. Among the most frequently discussed issues is how to access and set various MAPI properties and how the PropertyAccessor can help with this. Let's have a close look at the new classes which were introduced in Outlook 2007 and […]... Read the rest of this entry →
When to release COM objects in Office add-ins developed in .NET
Andrei Smolin | October 30th, 2008
I like working at the support desk. I've become much closer to developers' needs and musts. They hit me with releasing COM objects in COM add-ins written VB.NET and C#. I’ve collected most common questions and my answers on this page. Well, let's go... Read the rest of this entry →
Handling NewMail, NewMailEx and ItemAdd Outlook events in .NET
Eugene Astafiev | April 25th, 2008
Sometimes you need to process incoming e-mails and meeting requests in order to retrieve sender data for your CRM, to save attachments to your Document Management System (DMS), to process automated e-mails, or to convert selected incoming messages to plain text. Whenever you need to track incoming e-mails, you face the following Outlook events: NewMail, NewMailEx, and ItemAdd. ... Read the rest of this entry →
How to customize Outlook Today page programmatically?
Andrei Smolin | April 11th, 2008
In this post, I show you how to create a custom Outlook home folder page and enrich it with VBScript. Also I reveal the .NET way provided by Add-in Express: you create a custom .NET form and show it in the same way as Outlook Today does.... Read the rest of this entry →
Build Outlook add-in in .NET to manage Outlook templates & signatures
Andrei Smolin | March 28th, 2008
How to avoid a boring and time consuming work of retyping the sane words and phrases in Outlook correspondence. Let's develop an Outlook add-in that will keep and manage all our template phrases and signatures.... Read the rest of this entry →
Bypass Outlook security warnings when sending email messages in MS Access
Andrei Smolin | September 12th, 2007
Whenever you send e-mail messages in Microsoft Access, you get Outlook security warnings like œA program is trying to automatically send email. To get rid of such security prompts, use the Outlook Security Manager. With the ActiveX edition of this component you need just a few lines of code to switch the Outlook security off and on.... Read the rest of this entry →
Why Outlook is not closing when I run my add-in?
Andrei Smolin | August 17th, 2006
What to do if your add-in hangs Outlook and Outlook doesn't close. Possible reasons and workarounds. Code samples in VB 6, VB.NET.... Read the rest of this entry →