Archive for April, 2008

Handling NewMail, NewMailEx and ItemAdd Outlook events in .NET

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.

Office add-in localization: ribbon and commandbar controls, task panes etc.

To localize your COM add-in, you need to know the language settings of the Office application (host application) that the add-in is currently loaded in. In this post you will find some VB.NET and Delphi code samples of localizing your COM add-ins.

How to customize Outlook Today page programmatically?

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.

How to get access to hidden Outlook items via Extended MAPI?

Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are among the most popular applications utilizing MAPI. Add-in Express provides Outlook developers with a free component, MAPI Store Accessor, that hides MAPI complexities to provide developers with easy access to MAPI features.