Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’
Working with Outlook attachments programmatically: C# code examples
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 23rd, 2015
Many Outlook developers have been faced with programmatically accessing and working with Outlook Item attachments. All Outlook items have the Attachments property, which means attachments can be added to MailItem, ContactItem and AppointmentItem items, to name a few. In this article we'll explore some facets of handling and interacting with attachments in Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Sending and updating Outlook Calendar’s appointments and meeting requests
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 16th, 2015
2015 is here, and from all of us at Add-in Express we wish you a very prosperous year. We'll kick off this year by taking a closer look at Microsoft Outlook appointments and meetings... Read the rest of this entry →
How to access Outlook from HTML and JavaScript based add-ins
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 26th, 2014
When Microsoft announced their new Office development platform, which would allow developers to create MS Office Apps using HTML and JavaScript, I was very excited about the idea. Unfortunately, I quickly learned that I simply could not accomplish the same things I can with the standard Office Object Model than with the new Office JavaScript object model... Read the rest of this entry →
Connecting Outlook appointments with Freshbooks web-service data, part 4
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 14th, 2014
In this, our fourth and final part on how to write an Outlook add-in for Freshbooks web-service, we'll explore how to develop a custom form region to connect an Outlook appointment with the web-service's Timesheet entry... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating Outlook ribbon UI from scratch – Integrating with Freshbooks web-service, part 3
Pieter van der Westhuizen | November 6th, 2014
In this article, we'll continue with the add-in and tackle the process of hiding the standard Outlook Inspector and Explorer Ribbon tabs for the Freshbooks folders and items and replacing them with our own Freshbooks Ribbon Tabs... Read the rest of this entry →
Calling Freshbooks web-service from Outlook, part 2
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 21st, 2014
In the previous article, we started with the basic concept and layout of our Freshbooks Outlook Add-in. So far, we've connected Outlook to the web-service by creating the Freshbooks specific folders, message classes and solution module, and in this article we'll continue building our Outlook plug-in... Read the rest of this entry →
How to integrate Outlook add-in with Freshbooks web-service, part 1
Pieter van der Westhuizen | October 6th, 2014
In this article, the first of a series, we'll start building a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that will serve as a client for Freshbooks. Users would be able to view their Freshbooks data as well as perform numerous Freshbooks tasks all from within Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Using Outlook Recipient and Recipients collection – guide for developers
Ty Anderson | September 18th, 2014
Writing email can get you in a lot of trouble if you are not paying attention. I can tell you about some seriously funny (on retrospect) situations caused when I inadvertently added a recipient that I did not intend to add. I can tell you but I won't (unless we meet in person and you buy me a beer). Let's just say that Outlook's autofill feature is not your friend and is not to be trusted... Read the rest of this entry →
Calling Yahoo Weather web-service from an Outlook add-in
Pieter van der Westhuizen | August 21st, 2014
It's been a while since my last blog post and today we start the first in a series of exciting blog posts on integrating Microsoft Office applications with web-based services. The web is growing bigger and bigger by the day and there are a wide range of applications and services available on the internet which you can use to provide your users with more features and functionality inside Microsoft Outlook.... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Address Book – complete guide for developers
Ty Anderson | August 1st, 2014
Out-of-the-box, Outlook'is address book is the default contacts folder that resides in a user's Outlook folder structure. In a typical Outlook installation, there is a single contacts folder and feeds the TO, CC, BCC fields in the Outlook email form. In any form that supports assigning a contact to it, the default address book feeds it as well... Read the rest of this entry →
Working with the Global Address Book for developers
Ty Anderson | June 18th, 2014
Outlook makes it easy to maintain your contacts. The contacts you create in Outlook are the basis for the address book you use when sending emails. Sounds simple enough. But did you know that Outlook, in true Microsoft fashion, is much more complex beneath the hood?... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Online & Google Mail for developers – What’s the difference?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 17th, 2014
We've previously explored the different options for developing gadgets for Gmail as well as what options are available to developers to create apps that run on both the desktop and web editions of Microsoft Office. The two platforms are very different and offer varying degrees of customizations... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating Apps for Microsoft Outlook
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 12th, 2014
In today's article we'll build a similar app for Outlook for the gadget we've build in my last post. Our app will use the subject line of an e-mail to check for search results on the Add-in Express forums and blogs besides we'll also provide our user with the option to perform a manual search... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating a custom Send button in Outlook
Ty Anderson | January 30th, 2014
Microsoft does not provide us with a way to customize the Send button using the Outlook object model. We can't change its caption, size, colors, etc. This is just how it is. Microsoft is happy with the Send button as-is and doesn't want us messing with it... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Junk Mail Filter
Ty Anderson | January 17th, 2014
Most likely you are not receiving large amounts of spam on a daily basis. This is thanks to the fact that most organizations install their spam filters or utilize online services to handle it. And if you are using a free email provider like Outlook.com or a paid service like Office 365, these services actively combat spam before it hits your inbox... Read the rest of this entry →
Working with custom Outlook properties: C# code examples
Pieter van der Westhuizen | January 15th, 2014
Microsoft Outlook provides a rich interface for developers to add their own custom properties to Outlook Folders and Items. The Outlook Object model provides two objects when working with custom properties... Read the rest of this entry →