Posts Tagged ‘VSTO’

How To: Create a new Task item in Outlook

In my previous posts I have described how to create a new e-mail message, contact and appointment items. Today I am going to cover task items... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Office news you can use! – 2.15.2012

Sometimes it's a struggle to find fresh developer items. This is expected given Office 2010 is no longer the center of attention due to our clamoring for more Office 15 details. Those details will arrive soon enough. For today, we have some solid items for your consideration. ... Read the rest of this entry →

Version-neutrality for your Office extensions: Add-in Express vs. VSTO

I have to be honest. I have become very spoiled with Add-in Express when it comes to Microsoft Office development, a fact that I once again realized after a discussion with the gang about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and Add-in Express... Read the rest of this entry →

Add-in Express vs. Visual Studio Tools for Office

Almost four years to this day, I wrote about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) available in the latest release of Visual Studio 2008. I've also later posted an update that I've found a much more efficient way of developing for Microsoft Office; and that way was of course Add-in Express!... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Restrict method in Outlook to get calendar items

I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods against calendar items in my previous post. Today I would like to take closer look at how to deal with calendar items using the Restrict method... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Retrieve Outlook calendar items using Find and FindNext methods

In my previous articles I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods of the Items class against mail and contact items. Today we will have a closer look at calendar items... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new recurring Outlook Appointment item

In my previous article I described how to create a new Outlook Appointment item. Now I want to show you the way to create a new recurring appointment item in Outlook. Unfortunately the Outlook Object Model doesn't provide any intuitive property or method for such a task... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new Outlook Appointment item

There are three ways of creating a new appointment item in Outlook. Today we will examine each of them in depth... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Get a list of Outlook contacts

A while ago I described two ways of getting Outlook Contact items from a folder: by using the Find/FindNext and Restrict methods of the Items class. Today I am going to show you the way of getting a list of all contacts of a certain Outlook user... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Retrieve Outlook Contact items using Restrict method

In one of my previous articles I demonstrated the way of using the Restrict method against mail items. Now I am going to use this method against Contact items in Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Find and FindNext to retrieve Outlook Contact items

Not so long ago I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder. Today I am going to replace a mail item declaration with a contact declaration. There is no difference between mail and contact items in case we use the Find and FindNext methods... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Send a Contact item in Outlook programmatically

There are three ways of sending a contact in Outlook. Today we will examine them in detail. Please note that the ContactItem class doesn't provide the Send method like the MailItem class does... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new Outlook Contact item programmatically

Not so long ago I described various ways of creating Outlook messages programmatically. Today we will examine contact items. The first and easiest way of creating a new Contact item in Outlook is to use the CreateItem method of the Application class... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Perform Send/Receive in Outlook programmatically

Today I will continue my series of "How To" articles explaining the basics of Outlook development. The NameSpace class in Outlook provides a programmatic equivalent of the "Send/Receive All" command – SendAndReceive method ... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Get unread Outlook e-mail items from the Inbox folder

In my previous articles we discussed the Find, FindNext and Restrict methods of the Outlook Items class. You can use these methods for retrieving unread items in the way I did... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder

In my previous article I demonstrated how you can use the Find and FindNext methods of the Items class in Outlook. Today I want to show you an alternative way of retrieving Outlook mail items from a folder. As the post's title suggests, the Restrict method plays the key role in the process... Read the rest of this entry →

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