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 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.

Build Outlook add-in in .NET to manage Outlook templates & signatures

How to avoid a boring and time consuming work of retyping the sane words and phrases in Outlook correspondence. Let’s develop an Outlook add-in that will keep and manage all our template phrases and signatures.

Bypass Outlook security warnings when sending email messages in MS Access

Whenever you send e-mail messages in Microsoft Access, you get Outlook security warnings like œA program is trying to automatically send email. To get rid of such security prompts, use the Outlook Security Manager. With the ActiveX edition of this component you need just a few lines of code to switch the Outlook security off and on.

Why Outlook is not closing when I run my add-in?

What to do if your add-in hangs Outlook and Outlook doesn’t close. Possible reasons and workarounds. Code samples in VB 6, VB.NET.