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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Add-Ins / July 2008Add-in not reading message
I developed an addin for Outlook 2003 using c#. Everything was working fine until our company outsourced Exchange. When I tried to read a message body, I got either a blank or error. I have a work-around in place where I display the mail in the inspector window, read the text and then close the window. This works, but takes longer and has a flash of the open window for the user to see. This also changes the 'read' status of the email to read and I cannot change it to unread. Any thoughts on another solution?  SignaturePeg That sounds very odd. Are you still using mailboxes? Using cached mode? What's your code for reading an item in an Explorer? SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007. Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options. http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >I developed an addin for Outlook 2003 using c#. Everything was working fine > until our company outsourced Exchange. When I tried to read a message [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Any thoughts on another solution? We are still using mailboxes. Most of our users have pst files but some keep their mail on the server and use cached exchange mode. here is my code for obtaining the message: ... Outlook.MailItem mi = obj as Outlook.MailItem; ... mi.Display(false); ... sNewComments = mi.Body; ... mi.Close(OlInspectorClose.olSave) ... There is a lot more of course, so if you need it I do not think you want it posted in this forum SignaturePeg > That sounds very odd. Are you still using mailboxes? Using cached mode? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > Any thoughts on another solution? The code you show doesn't look like a problem. Is the mail item displaying? If it does display does it show the body in the UI? Do you get Body if you wait a while after opening the item before you read body? What about using similar code in the Outlook VBA project, does that work? SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007. Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options. http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > We are still using mailboxes. Most of our users have pst files but some > keep [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > it > posted in this forum I did not used to have to call display -- I only needed to do that when we outsourced. At that time we also went from Exchange 2000 here to Exchange 2003 at the outsourcer's site. We also went from using VB6 (not VBA) to .Net and C# to address the security issues. So the mail item is displaying and the mail is getting marked as read. I was hoping not to use similar code but to go back to getting the body without displaying the UI. I also want to be able to update and distribute that update and VBA is not a good option for that. I do not know if this helps, but I get all of the header with no problem, so I only need to display the ones that need to be saved in our database. SignaturePeg > The code you show doesn't look like a problem. > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > it > > posted in this forum I suggested using VBA as a test, not for your code deployment. I'd suggest seeing if you still have the same problem without displaying the item using equivalent VBA code, which would tend to suggest a timing problem. .NET code is slower than VB6 code to startup (JIT compilation, starting the CLR) and to run since everything is effectively late bound and has to pass through the Interop before your code even gets to work on things. So some timing issues you might never see in unmanaged code might appear in managed code. Thus my suggestion about seeing if delaying reading the body might help. Another thing you might try, depending on your Outlook version which you don't mention, is to look at the DownloadState property of the item before attempting to read the Body. Make sure that's OlDownloadState.olFullItem. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007. Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options. http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm >I did not used to have to call display -- I only needed to do that when we > outsourced. At that time we also went from Exchange 2000 here to Exchange [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > so > I only need to display the ones that need to be saved in our database. |
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