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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Interop / November 2003Drag and drop of emails from outlook to my C# application
Hello! I want to drop an email in my C# application. I get the drop event and the dataobject. But i cannot interpret the data in the dataobject. So i cannot get the email. I have found a code sample for getting appendix via drag&drop, but this doesn't work for the email, too. Can somebody give me a tip how i can get the email? Regards, Johann Unless you are using Extended MAPI, there is no way to do that - besides a couple of internal formats, drag data contains messages in the MSG format. Or, since a user must select the messages in Outlook first to drag them, simply query Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection collection. Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP) http://www.dimastr.com/ OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO and MAPI Developer Tool > Hello! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Regards, > Johann Hello Dmitry, thank you for your help! I can get the actual selection as you described. But you wrote that the drag data contains messages in MSG format. Can i get the messages and save them to .msg files? The FileContents Data is null so i think it must be the RenPrivateMessages. Is that right? Can i separate the msg files from there? Do you know how i can do that? Johann > Unless you are using Extended MAPI, there is no way to do that - besides a > couple of internal formats, drag data contains messages in the MSG format. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Regards, > > Johann You need to use the CF_HDROP format and DragQueryFile() to access the temporary file names. Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP) http://www.dimastr.com/ OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO and MAPI Developer Tool > Hello Dmitry, > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > Regards, > > > Johann Hello Dmitry, i use CSharp, so i cannot use DragQueryFile(). The format CF_HDROP is not available, too. The formats available are: RenPrivateSourceFolder RenPrivateMessages FileGroupDescriptor FileContents Object Descriptor System.String UnicodeText Text The first 3 are MemoryStreams which i cannot interpret. The FileContents is always null. Object Descriptor is MemoryStream which i cannot interpret, too Others are strings with the mail subject. Do you know how i can access it in CSharp? Johann I have no idea, but I would imagine that you can access Windows API functions from C#. Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP) http://www.dimastr.com/ OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO and MAPI Developer Tool > Hello Dmitry, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Johann Thanks for your help! > I have no idea, but I would imagine that you can access Windows API > functions from C#. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > Johann FYI, this ClipSpy tool is useful for seeing what's on the clipboard (used by drag-n-drop): http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/code/ClipSpy/clipspy.html >Hello Dmitry, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Johann Thanks for the tool, but i didn't get the dragdrop data from clipboard. Maybe it depends on that i am using CSharp and the .NET Framework. > FYI, this ClipSpy tool is useful for seeing what's on the clipboard > (used by drag-n-drop): [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > >Johann |
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