Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’

Outlook 2010 Solutions Module revisited

It's been a year and seven months since my first article about the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module. Time sure flies when you're having fun. Since I first wrote the article, I received numerous comments and questions about the Outlook 2010 Solutions module, mostly on how to programmatically add items to it... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Outlook & SharePoint integration, Business Connectivity Services – 1.25.2012

SharePoint is a 'document coffin', says IBM. In this lead new item, the author reports a bunch of words from IBM's VP of Social Software. With these words, this gentleman makes a ridiculous argument and successfully garners a few headlines about IBM's social and productivity software... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 – Attach files from SharePoint to Outlook E-mail programmatically

In my last post, Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically, I showed you how you can write a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that will save all the attachments on an e-mail to the Office 365 SharePoint Online Shared Documents library. In today's post I would like to show you how to do the opposite, e.g. how to attach files from SharePoint Online to Outlook e-mail messages. This could be useful if your customer has a shared library with documents they send via e-mail on a regular basis. ... Read the rest of this entry →

Office 365 – Save Outlook e-mails & attachments to SharePoint Online programmatically

If you're following Ty's Office 365 Newswires and read this article about Microsoft already having sold five million Office 365 seats in roughly two and a half months, I'm sure you would agree with me that Office 365 is set to change, if not revolutionize the way people use and interact with Microsoft Office. ... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: The Office Ribbon secret decoder ring – 1.18.2012

I'm just thinking out loud here as I write today's Office Newswire. There are lots of rules I create to help me focus as I write. But one rule that is sacrosanct is that the Newswire is written in a steam-of-conscience manner. A surprising good week for Office news and opinions. I have, of course, offered my thoughts and opinions about the items below ... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Strategies and tools to stay organized and productive in 2012 – 1.4.2012

I spent the better part of my week do just that as well as thinking through 2012. I don't do the “New Year's Resolution” thing but I do set my sights on some items I want to achieve. It sounds like resolutions doesn't it? The difference is resolutions tend to be specific… narrow. My objectives are broad and set the tone for the entire year. They act as an umbrella that sets the scope of my activities... Read the rest of this entry →

How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: replying from a context-menu

Let's consider the case then the user replies to an Outlook e-mail from the context menu. First off, you can reply to one item only; that item is selected or right-clicked in an explorer window or is opened in an inspector window.... Read the rest of this entry →

How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Inspector.Activate

In my previous article I explained the Reply event and parameters it provides. Also, I described a class handling this event in a version-neutral way. Now what I want is to show how you intercept Outlook's Inspector.Activate event.... Read the rest of this entry →

How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: tracking Explorer.SelectionChange

Add-in Express implements a version-independent approach to handling events of an Outlook item. The class implementing this is called ADXOutlookItemEvents. I recommend that you regard this class as a set of event handlers; you can implement several such classes to follow several business rules... Read the rest of this entry →

HowTo: Handle events of an Outlook item

There are two variants of handling events of an Outlook item. You can connect to events of an item shown in the active inspector window. In addition, you can connect to events of an item selected in the explorer window... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Office 15 Beta to Debut January 2012 – 11.26.2011

I'm a day late with the Office Newswire for this week. I am without excuse but I will still lay blame on the tryptophan-induced coma I had as a result of all the turkey I ate during Thanksgiving. That and the 2 pieces of pecan pie... Read the rest of this entry →

Outlook and Word Toolbars mixed: problem and solution

Have you ever run into the issue when an Outlook toolbar created by your add-in shows up in Word? Or maybe, a Word toolbar gets displayed in Outlook? This article describes the issue and provides a workaround; the source code is supplied in VB.NET, C# and Delphi... 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 →

Outlook NewMail unleashed, part 4 – Writing your own solution

In the previous part we looked at using Extended MAPI to handle new mails in Outlook and despite the fact that is does a pretty decent job of it, it still has some serious limitations. In this, the fourth and final part of the series, we will write our own solution to the problem ... 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 →

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