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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming VBA / July 2006How to use "Look up Outlook Contact" function with code? VSTO 2005
In Outlook 2003, if you open a message and hover over the name in the From field, a menu appears with "Look up Outlook Contact" as one of the menu items which will either open up a Contact or display a message stating that no matching contact was found. I would like to be able to use code in my VSTO 2005 Add-In to open a message and check to see if there is a matching Contact. If so, I want to set some of the UserProperties of the Contact Item. Currently, I am searching for a string in the Subject of the Inbox items and when one is found, I then loop through all of the Contacts to find a matching email address. This seems to me to be the slow way of doing it although it does work. It would probably be much faster to be able to open up a Contact item using code the same way that a user can open up a Contact item by using the "Look up Outlook Contact" function. Is this possible or is looping through the Contacts collection and comparing email addresses the only way?  SignatureDavid Webb One way or the other you're going to be comparing email addresses. How quickly that goes depends on how you do that. If using the Outlook object model probably the quickest way is to use a Restriction on the Items collection of each contacts folder, restricting first on Email1Address then on Email2Address then on Email3Address. Once you have that contact item getting its EntryID and an object reference to the contact and then displaying it is easy. A much quicker way would be to use a lower level API such as Extended MAPI (which is what Outlook does but it can only be programmed using C++ or Delphi) or something like Redemption (an Extended MAPI wrapper) and using a filtered MAPITable. That would be anywhere from 10 to 100 times faster than using the Outlook object model. SignatureKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > In Outlook 2003, if you open a message and hover over the name in the From > field, a menu appears with "Look up Outlook Contact" as one of the menu [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > comparing > email addresses the only way? |
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