How to get current email in Inbox on startup

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How to get current email in Inbox on startup
 
Mike VE




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I am developing an app that uses an Outlook Advanced Form Region to display information relevant to the current email in the Inbox. It works fine when I select a different message in the Inbox. I use the form's ADXOlFormInboxAssistant_ADXSelectionChange() event to get the current object and cast it to a MailItem.

The problem is when Outlook starts up. I want the form region to display info about the first email selected. Although ADXOlFormInboxAssistant_ADXSelectionChange() fires at least twice during the startup sequence attempts to get the current object fail because the ActiveExplorer().Selection.Count is 0, even the last time the event fires.

Should I be using a different event?
Posted 19 Aug, 2016 07:13:03 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Mike,

Will the selection return a correct item if you click the *selected* item right after startup?


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 19 Aug, 2016 08:46:23 Top
Mike VE




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Yes, that works fine.

I think the problem is to do with the timing of when the OutlookApp object is available. I cannot find a FormRegion event that fires AFTER the OutlookApp object has been made available in the main AddinModule code.
That means that calls to ActiveExplorer.Selection fail.

Is there a way I can get the ActiveExplorer before AddinStartupComplete?

Or is there some other way to do it?
Posted 19 Aug, 2016 09:37:13 Top
Mike VE




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Cracked it. I found that the ADXOlForm had its own OutlookApplication property and once I had got that everything else followed.

Thanks.
Posted 19 Aug, 2016 10:07:01 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Thank you for posting this!


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 19 Aug, 2016 10:24:47 Top