Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’
How To: Add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an Outlook e-mail item
Eugene Astafiev | August 19th, 2011
Today I want to tell you the story about Outlook user properties. Each item in Outlook such as MailItem, AppointmentItem, ContactItem and etc. (except for the NoteItem) provides you with the UserProperties property which returns an instance of the UserProperties class... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Get a list of Outlook attachments
Eugene Astafiev | August 15th, 2011
As a developer, sometimes you may want to know what is attached to the e-mail you have selected or opened in Outlook. Today I will show you how to iterate over the attachments collection and get the required information about attached items, such as file name, display name and type... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Add an existing Outlook e-mail message as an attachment
Eugene Astafiev | August 12th, 2011
Now I want to show you how to attach an e-mail instead of a regular file. For such task I created a simple method in the code called AddMessageAsAttachment. This method attaches a MailItem object to the e-mail message and accepts two parameters: the first is the container e-mail message and the second one is an e-mail message which should be attached... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Add an attachment to an Outlook e-mail message
Eugene Astafiev | August 10th, 2011
Sometimes developers need to create an add-in, which automatically sends reports based on some rules. The report can hold one or more attachments with the data the recipient needs. Today I will show you how to attach something to the e-mail message programmatically... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Respond to an Outlook email programmatically
Andrei Smolin | August 5th, 2011
Several Outlook item types provide the Forward, Reply and ReplyAll methods. Let's see how to respond to an Outlook.MailItem... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Get any standard / default folder in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | August 5th, 2011
One of the most common tasks in Outlook programming a developer may face is getting a standard folder. Here I will show you how to get it... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Delete a folder in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | August 3rd, 2011
Some time ago I showed a way of creating a folder in Outlook. Now I want to show the reverse operation – deleting a folder. The Outlook Object Model provides the Delete method of the Folder class for such task. It doesn’t accept any parameters and doesn’t return any value. It just does its job!... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new folder in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | August 1st, 2011
Today I will show you how to create a new folder in Outlook. As you have probably noticed, the Outlook Object Model provides the Folders class... Read the rest of this entry →
How to specify account for an outgoing Outlook message
Andrei Smolin | August 1st, 2011
How to specify account for an outgoing email message in Outlook 2000-2010?... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extending Business Contact Manager
Ty Anderson | July 20th, 2011
Business Contact Manager (BCM) is Microsoft's attempt to a nice CRM tool to the small and medium-sized business market. It has its pros and cons but overall, I think they succeeded. Business Contact Manager resides within Microsoft Outlook, which makes perfect sense. Using BCM, users can seamlessly track leads, projects, employees, marketing campaigns and more... Read the rest of this entry →
Customize Office 2010 Ribbon UI programmatically
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 21st, 2011
The Microsoft Office Ribbon is probably one component we all use in almost every MS Office add-in. In today's post we'll take a closer look at the Office 2010 Fluent Ribbon UI as well as various ways you can customize it to fit your needs... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating integrated Office solutions with Add-in Express
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 7th, 2011
Add-in Express enables you as a developer to quickly and easily create, not just MS Office add-ins but also Excel XLL add-ins, Excel Real-time data (RTD) servers and smart tags. In this post I'll demonstrate how you could include all this functionality in one Visual Studio project. Start by creating a new ADX COM Add-in project in Visual Studio... Read the rest of this entry →
Creating an Office COM add-in: getting started for VB developers
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 2nd, 2011
How to quickly create a shared COM add-in for Microsoft Outlook, Excel and word in VB.NET. Sample add-in is available for download.... Read the rest of this entry →
Video HowTo: Outlook Inspector regions – InspectorRegion region (VB.NET)
Dmitry Kostochko | April 22nd, 2011
Today we are going to review the potential of InspectorRegion. Using this region you can add your own form underneath the main page of any Outlook Inspector window, such as mail, contact, appointment etc. Let's see how to create it... Read the rest of this entry →
Programming for Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM)
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 19th, 2011
Microsoft Business Contact Manager or BCM is a great way for mostly small businesses to manage their business contacts, sales leads and projects. The beauty of BCM for MS Office developers is the fact that it is entirely contained within MS Outlook; giving the user a seamlessly integrated experience with Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Extend Outlook UI with advanced version neutral regions
Ty Anderson | April 18th, 2011
Office users love Microsoft Outlook. But users often have unique productivity methods that often don't quite fit within Outlook's out of the box features set. Thinks to Add-in Express this isn't a problem! Developers can extend the Outlook user interface by implementing something known as version neutral regions... Read the rest of this entry →