Posts Tagged ‘Object model’

How To: Create a new Outlook Contact item programmatically

Not so long ago I described various ways of creating Outlook messages programmatically. Today we will examine contact items. The first and easiest way of creating a new Contact item in Outlook is to use the CreateItem method of the Application class... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Perform Send/Receive in Outlook programmatically

Today I will continue my series of "How To" articles explaining the basics of Outlook development. The NameSpace class in Outlook provides a programmatic equivalent of the "Send/Receive All" command – SendAndReceive method ... Read the rest of this entry →

How to use Evaluate to invoke an Excel UDF programmatically

Whether your UDF is a VBA macro or an Excel Automation add-in or even an XLL add-in, you can invoke any method it provides to the user. To do this, you need to get or create an Excel.Application object and invoke ExcelApp.Evaluate() supplying it with the correct syntax for your method and its parameters.... Read the rest of this entry →

Creating a fast Excel add-in (C#, VB.NET). Reading and updating cells.

This is a known problem: doing things cell by cell in Excel is a slow operation. The Excel object model provides two ways to speed up the code... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Get unread Outlook e-mail items from the Inbox folder

In my previous articles we discussed the Find, FindNext and Restrict methods of the Outlook Items class. You can use these methods for retrieving unread items in the way I did... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder

In my previous article I demonstrated how you can use the Find and FindNext methods of the Items class in Outlook. Today I want to show you an alternative way of retrieving Outlook mail items from a folder. As the post's title suggests, the Restrict method plays the key role in the process... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET)

As you have probably guessed, this article will describe the Find and FindNext methods of the Outlook Items class. But before focusing on the functionality of these methods, I would like to draw an analogy with database programming in the .NET world. In ADO.NET there is the System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader class which provides the Read method... Read the rest of this entry →

How to get and set the format of an Outlook email message

Outlook supports creating emails in plain-text, HTML and RTF (rich-text) formats. To get or set the format of an email message, you use the MailItem.BodyFormat property; it isn't available in Outlook 2000. The value returned by the property is one of the Outlook.OlBodyFormat constants... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Change an Outlook e-mail message before sending using C# or VB.NET

As a developer you may want to modify an e-mail before sending it (or just add some information, such as a non-disclosure agreement etc.). It is a fairly simple task that every Outlook developer should be familiar with. For example, sometimes you may need to change the subject of a message by adding an ID or something else to track the item in your Inbox; add something to the e-mail body... Read the rest of this entry →

Video: Create advanced form regions for Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007 (C#, VB.NET)

A few weeks ago I did a short video to introduce our new product known as Add-in Express Regions for Microsoft Outlook and VSTO. I thought it time to take things up a notch and provide a solid sample that implements advanced form regions in a VSTO project and also accesses the Outlook object model in a meaningful way... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Fill TO,CC and BCC fields in Outlook programmatically

In my previous article, where I showed how to create and send an Outlook message programmatically, I added a recipient to the e-mail. Now I want to delve deeper and show you what you can do with the Recipients collection. Outlook developers frequently need to add recipients to the TO, CC and BCC fields... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create and send an Outlook message programmatically

Today I want to tell you the story about sending messages in Outlook programmatically. In one of my recent posts I showed two possible ways of creating and showing a new Outlook message. And now I want to make an addition to that: demonstrate how you can send a message programmatically... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new Outlook message based on a template

In my previous article, where I demonstrated how to create and show an Outlook message programmatically, a mail item object was created from scratch. Now I want to show you the way to create a new mail item based on a template... Read the rest of this entry →

How to create and show a new Outlook mail item programmatically: C#, VB.NET

One of the most widespread tasks in Outlook is creating and showing an e-mail item to the user programmatically (or just sending it silently). Today I will teach you how to do it in two different manners.... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Get Outlook e-mail item’s custom properties – C# and VB.NET samples

In my previous article How To: Add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an e-mail item in Outlook I showed you the way to add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an e-mail item in Outlook. Now I want to demonstrate you how to iterate over all user properties of an e-mail item... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Add a custom property to the UserProperties collection of an Outlook e-mail item

Today I want to tell you the story about Outlook user properties. Each item in Outlook such as MailItem, AppointmentItem, ContactItem and etc. (except for the NoteItem) provides you with the UserProperties property which returns an instance of the UserProperties class... Read the rest of this entry →

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