Select a contact programmatically

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naveed - 19 Feb 2007 18:32 GMT

I'm writing a C# addin, to do some contact management. I'm stumped on
this seemingly trivial task. I want to select (focus) a contact item.
How can I do this? Thanks in advance.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 19 Feb 2007 20:36 GMT

Select an item in a folder view? That's not possible.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for general Outlook programming issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public
.outlook.program_vba

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> I'm writing a C# addin, to do some contact management. I'm stumped on
> this seemingly trivial task. I want to select (focus) a contact item.
> How can I do this? Thanks in advance.

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naveed - 21 Feb 2007 00:56 GMT

I sort of solved the problem by using this crude approach, after
making sure the contacts folder is being displayed:

SendKeys.Send(contact.FileAs);

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