Basic Outlook Object Question

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Basic Outlook Object Question
How to access the Outlook Object 
Jack Bretcher




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I have a very basic question. I just purchased and loaded Add-in-Express and at the same time am making the transition from VB6 to .NET for my Outlook COM development.

In the past when I initialized my addin (in InitHandler) I set a global to the passed in Outlook Object. I then used this to access the Outlook object from the rest of my code.

How do I do that in this environment?

Jack
Posted 30 Jun, 2006 22:26:48 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Jack.

You can use the HostApplication property of the AddinModule class to access the Outlook application object.
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 06:19:54 Top
Jack Bretcher




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For some reason I cannot find the HostApplication property of the AddinMOdule class. I see it in the object browser but if I try to reference it in the code it tells me that it is not defined.
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 09:25:28 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Jack, please look at our examples from the ADX installation package.
You will see how we use this property.
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 09:53:48 Top
Jack Bretcher




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I must be missing something. I looked at the projects in "C:\Program Files\Afalinasoft\Add-in Express .NET\QDemo\VS.NET 2005\" but the only reference to HostApplication is in the following declaration (at bottom of post). I cannot find where is it used in the application.
All I am trying to do is load a form and on that form access the Outlook object to get the default folders.


private Outlook._Application OutlookApp
{
get
{
return HostApplication as Outlook._Application;
}
}
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 10:38:38 Top
fearlessfrog




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Hi Jack

I use the following event in the Form contructor: 


private  Outlook.Application _app = null;

public ADXOlForm1()
{
  // This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
  InitializeComponent();

  this.ADXAfterFormShow +=new AddinExpress.OL.ADXOlForm.AfterFormShow_EventHandler(ADXOlForm1_ADXAfterFormShow);

}


and then use the setup OutlookAppObj in the event... 


private void ADXOlForm1_ADXAfterFormShow()
{
  _app = (Outlook.Application) this.OutlookAppObj; 
  // Use the Outlook application object however you like...
				
}


Not sure if that's the only/best way, but it works for me...
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 13:14:07 Top
Jack Bretcher




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Here is what I did:

In a module I declared the following global

Then in the Addin AddinStartUpcomplete I added
gOutlook = OutlookApp

Code:

--> In the module
Imports Interop.Outlook
Module Module1
Public gOutlook As Interop.Outlook.Application
End Module

--> in the Addin
Private Sub AddinModule_AddinStartupComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.AddinStartupComplete
eventObject = New OutlookItemsEventsClass1(Me)
gOutlook = OutlookApp
End Sub

This seems to work....

Jack
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 16:19:52 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Jack.

You do everything correct.
Posted 03 Jul, 2006 18:24:27 Top
Jack Bretcher




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Thanks! BTW, I love your lib's they have saved me many hours vs manually coding as I did in the past. They also make it feasable to move to the DotNet platform!

Jack
Posted 04 Jul, 2006 00:12:44 Top