Dmitry Kostochko

Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – FolderView region (VB.NET)

Today we are going to look into the capabilities of one of the most interesting Outlook regions – FolderView region. This region extends the standard outlook SuperGrid by adding a possibility to switch between the SuperGrid and our custom region.

In our code, we will get access to a selected mail item, get its HTMLBody property and display this property in the standard System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser component, which is located in our region. You will also see how to bind a region to a particular Outlook folder, how to activate your custom region programmatically and how to activate the standard Outlook pane overlaid by our custom region, in our case – SuperGrid.

Let’s see how it works:

This sample video was captured in Visual Studio 2010 (VB.NET) with Add-in Express 2010 for Office and .net.

See other video HowTo samples of this series:

Video HowTo: Embed your form into Explorer window under Outlook Navigation Pane
Video HowTo: Modify Outlook To-Do bar with custom forms – BottomTodoBar region (VB.NET)
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – BottomSubpane region (VB.NET)
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – TopSubpane region (VB.NET)
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – RightSubpane region (VB.NET)
Video HowTo: Outlook Explorer regions – LeftSubpane region (VB.NET)

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