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Thomas Guenther
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Hi!
I have a little problem with property pages in Outlook 2000/2003
I created a shimed C#-COM-AddIn with a property page shown in outlook (no specific folder).
Further i created a Setup-Project following the instructions in VSSetup.doc
(set the register property of my AddIn to vsdrpCOM)
If i install my project on the dev machine or another machine and open Outlook my property page isn't shown.
Otherwise if i use 'Register ADX Project' on my dev machine i can see the property page. What do i'm wrong ?
I'm using ADX.Net 2.6, VS2003
The ProgId of my property page is set right in my AddinModule
My Com-Addin is not disabled in Outlook 2003 and will be loaded at startup
No error message appears in outlook.
Thanx for your help!
Ciao,
Thomas |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 07:33:15
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Sergey Grischenko
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Hi Thomas.
Do you get any error messages? |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 08:14:27
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Thomas Guenther
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Hi Sergey!
First thanx for your really fast reply!!! :-)
No error message appears while opening outlook.
I can see the property page if i register the ADX project from inside VS2003
But if i install the addin with the installer i cannot see the property page.
Ciao,
Thomas |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 08:19:39
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Sergey Grischenko
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Thomas, please test the OutlookPropertyPage ADX example. Does it work on your PC? |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 08:43:37
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Thomas Guenther
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Hi Sergey!
I tested the ADX Outlook Property Pagwe example without success..:-(
It didn't work for me. Same behaviour as described above.
If i create a setup and install the addin via setup i cannot see any property page. If a use Register ADX project from within VS2003 it works like a charme.
I must change some path issues in your ADX example project to get it to work,
but i think ididn't something wrong.
Ciao,
Thomas |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 09:09:32
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Sergey Grischenko
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Thomas, I can send you a test by email in several minutes.
Could you please test it on your PC? |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 09:34:05
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Thomas Guenther
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Yes that would be fine....
Thanx Sergey! |
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Posted 11 Jul, 2006 09:34:53
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Thomas Guenther
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Hi Sergey!
I tested your Property example you sent to me yesterday evening.
First i didn't work then it does after i deinstalled my project.
No my Addin shows the property page correctly.
After some debugging i found the guilty method:
In my AddinModule_AddinStartupComplete a method will be called that checks if a custom form exists and if not installs it under the default appointment folder. However if i commented aout this method the property page was shown.
Here is the method:
private void publishCustomForm()
{
Outlook._Application myOlApp = null;
Outlook._NameSpace olNs = null;
Outlook.MAPIFolder CalendarFolder = null;
Outlook._Items calItems = null;
Outlook._AppointmentItem myItem = null;
Outlook.FormDescription myForm = null;
string filename = string.Empty;
string strTemp = string.Empty;
int endpos;
int mylength;
try
{
myOlApp = OutlookHost();
olNs = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
CalendarFolder = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderCalendar);
//retrieve Outlook Templates
System.Reflection.Assembly Asm = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
filename = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Asm.Location) + @"my_form.oft";
if( filename != "")
{
mylength = filename.Length;
//strip off the extension from the filename.
endpos = filename.IndexOf(".oft");
strTemp = filename.Substring(0, endpos).Trim();
calItems = CalendarFolder.Items;
myItem = (Outlook._AppointmentItem)calItems.Add("IPM.Appointment.R1");
if(myItem.FormDescription.Name == null)
{
MessageBox.Show("[Debug]: No custom form found...Installing a new one");
//publish all Outlook forms into folder Registry
myItem = (Outlook.AppointmentItem)myOlApp.CreateItemFromTemplate(filename, CalendarFolder);
myForm = myItem.FormDescription;
myForm.Name = "R1";
myForm.DisplayName = "Raumbuchung";
myForm.PublishForm(Outlook.OlFormRegistry.olFolderRegistry, CalendarFolder);
myItem.Close(Outlook.OlInspectorClose.olDiscard);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("[Debug]: The following custom form could be found: "+myItem.FormDescription.Name);
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
myOlApp = null;
olNs = null;
CalendarFolder = null;
myItem = null;
calItems = null;
myForm = null;
// if(myItem != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(myItem);
// if(calItems != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(calItems);
// if(myForm != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(myForm);
//
// if(myOlApp != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(myOlApp);
// if(olNs != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(olNs);
// if(CalendarFolder != null)
// Marshal.ReleaseComObject(CalendarFolder);
}
}
I encountered the following problem: if i use Marshal.ReleaseComObject(...) to derefrence my used objects the property page would not been shown. Setting the references simply to null seems to work correctly.
When should i use Marshal.ReleaseComObject(...) and when not?
Thanx for your help!!!!
Ciao,
Thomas |
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Posted 12 Jul, 2006 04:38:41
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Sergey Grischenko
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Hi Thomas.
You shouldn't use the Marshal.ReleaseComObject method with the Outlook application object (myOlApp).
Just remove the 'Marshal.ReleaseComObject(myOlApp)' code. |
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Posted 12 Jul, 2006 07:38:07
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Thomas Guenther
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Hi Sergey!
Ok. i removed it. Since im a newby to COM development i missed some basics :-|
I find it very hard to decide when to use Marshal.ReleaseComObject(...) and when not....
THANX for your help! Your da best !!!!!
Ciao,
Thomas |
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Posted 12 Jul, 2006 07:42:57
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