How to close Word editor in Outlook ?

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How to close Word editor in Outlook ?
 
Søren Hjarlvig




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 Joined: 2007-02-22
Hello,

I'm catching the ItemSend event and if certain conditions are meet, I cancel the send event and saves the message using:

mailItem.GetInspector.Close(OlInspectorClose.olSave);

This works when using the "normal" Outlook editor, but if Word is used, I'm getting a COM exception at Outlook._MailItem.get_GetInspector.

From reading this forum, I understand that the inspector is null when using Word as mail editor.

Is a way to close the Word Editor from an ItemSend eventhandler?

Best regards

Søren
Posted 22 Feb, 2007 18:10:22 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Søren.

Did you try to use the Close method of the Outlook._MailItem interface?


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Posted 23 Feb, 2007 13:30:28 Top
Søren Hjarlvig




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Thanks for your response. I tried Item.Close, but the result is a COM exception saying that Item.Close cannot be used during an Item.Send event...

In my ItemSend eventhandler I start a new thread. Maybe I could close the Word editor window from there, but the Item is released (Marshal.ReleaseComObject?) when the eventhandler returns and the reference becomes useless :-(

Regards

Søren
Posted 23 Feb, 2007 20:47:20 Top
Søren Hjarlvig




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It seems that the COM exception is only thrown when using Outlook 2000 / Word 2000. When using Outlook XP / Word XP, Word simply crashes.
Haven't tested Office 2003 yet.

Regards

Søren
Posted 25 Feb, 2007 07:59:10 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Søren.

You can use the OnSendMessage event to close the item in a separate thread. You just need to call the SendMessage method of the addinmodule with your custom message. To get the mail inspector in the OnSendMessage event handler you can use the ActiveInspector method of Outlook application.

Posted 26 Feb, 2007 07:33:26 Top
Søren Hjarlvig




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 Joined: 2007-02-22
Thank you for your help so far.

I can't get the SendMessage/OnSendMessage approach to work.

In the AddinModule() constructor I have

this.adxOutlookEvents.ItemSend +=
new AddinExpress.MSO.ADXOlItemSend_EventHandler(adxOutlookEvents_ItemSend);

and

this.OnSendMessage += new AddinExpress.MSO.ADXSendMessage_EventHandler(AddinModule_OnSendMessage);

and I have:

void AddinModule_OnSendMessage(object sender, AddinExpress.MSO.ADXSendMessageEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("AddinModule_OnSendMessage");
if (this.OutlookApp.ActiveInspector() != null && e.Message == 123)
{
MessageBox.Show("Closing");
this.OutlookApp.ActiveInspector().Close(OlInspectorClose.olDiscard);
}
}

void adxOutlookEvents_ItemSend(object sender, AddinExpress.MSO.ADXOlItemSendEventArgs e)
{
new ItemSendHandler(this.OutlookApp.Application).ItemSend(e);
MessageBox.Show("SendMessage");
this.SendMessage(123, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
}

When I send a message, the "SendMessage"-mbox is showing, but the "AddinModule_OnSendMessage"-mbox is not (and the inspector stays open).

I guess I'm doing something wrong ?



Posted 26 Feb, 2007 10:07:03 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Try the following code:

private const int WM_USER = 0x0400;
private const int WM_MYMESSAGE = WM_USER + 1000;

void adxOutlookEvents_ItemSend(object sender, ADXOlItemSendEventArgs e)
{
....
this.SendMessage(WM_MYMESSAGE, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
....
}

void AddinModule_OnSendMessage(object sender, ADXSendMessageEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Message == MYMESSAGE)
{
.....
}
}
Posted 26 Feb, 2007 10:21:58 Top
Søren Hjarlvig




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 Joined: 2007-02-22
It works - thank you for excellent support :D
Posted 26 Feb, 2007 11:13:26 Top