I read in a book that com addins developed for Outlook do not need to have
the VB6 runtimes distributed for them.
A few questions:
Should we use the latest VB Service Pack?

I'm developing a COM-addin in VC++ .NET using ATL/MFC.
An easy question this time :)
Is there an easy way to save & restore the position of a custom toolbar
created by my addin?

I posted a message last week about NameSpace::GetItemFromID failing on a
specific machine. I have since reproduced the problem on other machines and
identified its cause: neither NameSpace::GetItemFromID nor
MAPIFolder::Items::Item will return a MailItem pointer for an SMIME message ...

I have a custom form published in my Personal Forms Library. I want to add a
button/menu item that allows me to launch it directly, effectively replacing
the Choose Form operation.
I'm trying to do this via an addin - VC or VB, I don't mind which (but not

I have an addin that works as expected in Outlook 2000. One of the users
recently upgraded to Outlook 2003 and has the following problem.
Each time he uses the addin he has to first go to the Help menu, then to
About Microsoft Outlook and click on Disabled Items to revive the ...

I've made a workarround for refreshing a new mailitem (after inserting a
HTMLBody. It saves the item, and closes + displays it.
This works ok. Then, if the user clicks close, I'm checking if the mailitem
is edited, if not it should be deleted (else the drafts-folder will grow).

I have installed Microeye's .NET Outlook 2003 COM Addin
sample listed in the "What's New in Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003 for Developers?" article.  I am experiencing
a number of problems in which Outlook is not exiting

I've got a COM add-in which is reading messages from an external source
and creating PostItems in Outlook. Some of them might be in different charsets
- e.g. KOI8-R, Russian, etc.
I can work out which codepage these should be and then I set pr_internet_cpid,

I hope that I am in the right forum for this question. But for some unknown
reason, my Outlook 2003 program freezes? It appears to happen quite
often and without any warning. Are there compatibility issues with certain
programs?

Hi, All!
Is there ANY way to determine if the MailItem is being deleted in its
MailItem_Close event?
I'm doing a check whether the MailItem is changed and if it is, I

I am using Outlook 2002 as my mail client software. This
is connected to an Oracle Collaboration Suite mail server
via the Oracle provided "connector" mapi interface.
I would like to find out if Microsoft provides their own

I am trying to develope an AddIn for Microsoft Outlook where I wish to
add a CommandBar to the Explorer objects. I am using Visual Studio
.NET 2003.
I have two problems, depending on the version of Office that I am

I'm new to this so I hope that someone could give me a hint (a link
perharps) on how I should proceed.
I want to create a plugin to Outlook, lets say a new toolbar with some new
buttons and an extra entry in the Edit menu. Does anyone have a link which

We have implemented an Outlook COM add-in, and one of the goals is to
send email messages while extracting email properties at the same
time.  We have implemented our custom 'Send' button and so far so
good.

This is my first attemt w/ Outlook and I am using the
provided sample and the book "Microsoft Outlook
Programming. I have been using the sample project ItemsCB
as a base for creating my application.  I added a command