hi i am uisng "Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library" as refernce and want to cerate new appointment in outlook 2003 with custom category and with different color(label) in outlook 2007 it is there with name sapce in that machine i am able to cerate category and it is working properly if (oNS.Categories["my cat"] == null) { oNS.Categories.Add("my cat", Microsoft.Office.Interop.

hello I've VSTO Addin for Outlook 2007. I'm adding a dummy attachment in BeforeAttachment event & removing original attachment. But the attachment list still shows me original attachment along with dummy attachment. Besides this when I drag drop or insert attachment the cursor position changes. I also need to insert a link at current cursor position.so the cursor position should not

Hi, in Outlook 2007 I now managed it to add user properties to my item and to the folder. Now I was a bit disappointed to see that in the Field chooser of the view of the folder my user property is listes with the property name and that the new Column in the view also has this name as title. Don't Userproperties have a display name that can be set?? If not that's not god for

I am adding one user property to an email in outlook 2007 using VSTO Addin. When I close Outlook application It asks me, "Do you want to save changes?". Can I avoid this prompt? API I used : prop = MailItem.UserProperties.Add("TestProp" , Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olText , false

Is it possible to edit mail right pane in outlook addin? When select a mail in outlook right pane shows its field like subject,date body,attachments etc. Can we show some extra information in right pane when select a mail. Which event is call when show right pane(select mail) for any mail

Hi, I have a C# COM Add-in for Outlook 2007 that adds categories to mail messages programmatically. I use mapiNameSpace.Categories.Add method to add the category to the Master Category List and the Categories property of the MailItem to assign the category to the mail. This works fine and the category is successfully added to the mail and to the Master Category List. However, when

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Long time developer of addins but have been out of development for three years. Last experience was with VB6 and was fairly painless. Forgive me for asking multiple questions. It seems that they are all essentially the same topic. I have no interest in using VB6 at this point but I need advice on how to move forward into .NET. I am confused as to my options. Targets currently are

I am writing a plug-in for outlook using VSTO in which I want a toolbar button to be enabled only when one or more email messages are selected, and disabled/grayed otherwise. For which I need the event as soon as a message is clicked, and as soon as a selected message is deselected. Does VSTO expose such an event.

Hi, I am developing a new Outlook addin that adds a new form region to the reading pane and the inspector windows. I noticed that the advise() call I make to hook up the events for the fields on my form result in a QueryInterface of my Sink Object which results in its ref count being increased, but I never see a Release() call come back for my event object. How do I know when I

I have a group of 4 Outlook::OlkOptionButton's that I want to make tri-state. By tri-state I mean I want the user to be able to select either 0 or 1 of the 4 buttons. If he clicks on a button that is already set, it should turn off the button and then 0 of the buttons would be selected. Is that possible? Do I need to use a different button type?

Hi, user data that is stored as user properties in an item is stored IN this item independ if the same user property is defined in the folder. I need the additional definition of properties in the folder with the same names if I want to use filters and to display these data in a view? Correct?? The user properties stay with the item even when I move it to a different folder.

Hi, is a beginners question, but can I preview a completly new designed Form Region from the Form Designer or can it only be displayed from my addin?? Best Tom

Hi, I want to add to my custom inspector form a combobox that contains values that the user can define. E.g. Project status. If Outlook were a relational database I would store this values just in it's own table and populate the combobox from there. How is the best way to achieve this in Outlook?? Best Tom

Hi,I need to use the IRichEditOleCallback callback interface for some requirements, such as, when you type email can recognise a contact user,then outlook will create a OleObject(Recipient)and insert it into richedit controls,so before insertion,the IRichEditOleCallback::QueryInsertObject will be called,so I could add a image object just next it. I think this is the normal way to

Hi all. I develop vsto addIn 2005, OL 2003, C# 2.0 One of my customer sometime got comException --> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xB174010F): The operation failed. at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder.get_Name() In the code we try to get Folder's name. Why this happen?? How can i recover from this error?? (otlook restart helps, but this is not

Folder move event does not give the correct path for folder name. Suppose there is a under Inbox say inbox_Child. In outlook when i move inbox_Child under draft folder then item_add event is called which shows the path for inbox_Child as Inbox/inbox_Child(paren name of inbox_Child is Inbox, it's not Drafts). While it should give Drafts/inbox_Child. Is there any way to get correct path.

Hi, I'm developing my first ad-in for Outlook 2007 using c# I use a Shim created with the Shim-Wizzard and everything worked fine for a while. I could set breakpoints and debug without problems. Since this morning I can't debug anymore. When pressing "run" outlooks get started, but all my breakpoint have a sign saying "Module not loaded" When I check in the Trust Center->COM-Addin

This problem refers to using Outlook 2007, No matter what I have tried (maybe too little), I can't get the reading pane for RSS feeds to allow me a preview of the HTML page it refers to. I can do this with Thunderbird, but I seem unable to find the correct previewer, or to install one, so that the reading pane comes up full. Each time I have tried a new solution, I get the same old

Hi, I have run into a problem using the a checkbox within a Ribbon control. I have a C++ COM component which I have implemented a ribbon solution that works fine for all of the buttons; but does not work 100 percent for a checkbox. I originally implemented the ribbon logic in accordance with an article by Jensen Harris (Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL) and implementing buttons was

Hello, I'm having several problems with my Outlook-Add-In and I would appreciate any help on this one. To show a custom icon for items of a certain folder I set the PR_MESSAGE_CLASS to the message class I created and the PR_ICON_INDEX to -1. Then because of the -1 a custom icon is shown and because of the custom message class it's the one I defined in the custom form. Very good. The

Hi, I am developing outlook 2003 VSTO plugin project. How can I get programatically the outlook version (in this case 2003) ? Thanks in advance -- Nagaraj Tadipatri

1. How to capture events for submenus which comes under "Other Actions" popup menu on toolbar when open a mail in outlook 2007. There are some submenus under "Other Actions" popup menu like Edit Message, Recall This Message, Save Attachments etc For outlook 2003 i can capture these submenus using ActiveInspector->ActiveManuBar("Actions"). They comes under "Actions" popup menu in 2003.

Hi, I tried to change the display name of a newly added .pst store theApp.Instance.Application.Session.AddStoreEx(path,Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlStoreType.olStoreUnicode); //Find Our Store with WorkAround over FilePath Outlook.Stores stores=theApp.Instance.Application.Session.Stores; foreach (Outlook.Store store in stores)

I am writing a VSTO plug-in in which I need to show progress status of my task. Can I use the progress bar of outlook which shows send/receive status? Any suggestion if that is not possible?