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How to write a dot net app to support outlook 98, outlook 2003 and     outlook 2007.

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John - 14 May 2008 15:10 GMT
I am creating a dot net application that has to support outlook 98,
outlook 2003 and outlook 2007.

I can add a reference to the c# project for outlook 98 and most things
work across the versions.

However I am try to hook up the mailItem.Send event and am having
issues as outlook 98 event/delegate has different signatures than
outlook 2003. To cope with this I have created an overloaded function
one for each signature.

This approach has not worked and the event is only caught under
outlook 98. No errors are generated.

Is there a way around this or a better way to support multiple
versions of outlook in c#?

I hope this is the right place to post this message. All ideas
welcome.

Thanks
Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 14 May 2008 16:43 GMT
you'll get better answers in the outlook programming group - but AFAIK,
you'll need two apps if you want to support outlook 98.  If this is for a
corporate network, they really need to get rid of 98 - its insecure and
buggy - then you'll only need to support the 2 newest versions.

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> I am creating a dot net application that has to support outlook 98,
> outlook 2003 and outlook 2007.
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> Thanks
Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 14 May 2008 22:50 GMT
There are no PIAs and no managed code support at all for Outlook 98. Any
Outlook 98 application would have to be developed on an Outlook 98 machine
if any exist, and could only support C/W mode, and would have to be
unmanaged VB6, C++ or Delphi (or something like that).

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> you'll get better answers in the outlook programming group - but AFAIK,
> you'll need two apps if you want to support outlook 98.  If this is for a
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