I am planning to run a slow process in the Addin. I do not want user to wait
for the actions to complete before they can do anything  on their Outlook.
I am using the arbitrary thread. (Win32) and runs in separate apartment but
there seem to be some problem.

I have an old code sample:
'Pick up Word user templates folder from Registry
strTemplateDir = objWord.System.PrivateProfileString("",
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Common\FileNew\LocalTemplates",

I have Outlook 2000 with PFBackup installed. Everytime I wante to back up it
is unsuccessful. It comes uyp with the follwoinf error message.
"Cannot copy outlook. The process cannot access the file becuase another
process has locked a portion of the file".

I use the code:
Dim Nachricht
Set Nachricht = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
   Nachricht.Subject = "XXXXXXXX"

I have outlook add-in (toolbar) that works properly when I launch main MS
Outlook application.
But if I launch Send To -> Mail Recipient from explorer's context menu  I
take Debug assertion failed and my add-in crashes.

I'm programming with C++/ATL and i'm using the Vernoter sample. Testing
on Ol2003 with typelibe of OL2003
I'm experiencing random crashs of outlook when its closed : the crash
don't happen always it can takes some outlook restart to occur and when

I have a VB6.0 Com Addin that allows me to Print Outlook messages via
a Word Template. This causes Outlook to crash with Outlook 2003 (2000,
XP are OK) if Word isn't already open and I try to programmatically
create the object. The addin doesn't get disabled and I don't have

i'm creating a new appointment at the calender. but i dont want the user to
have the option of editing, moving or changing the hours of the
appointment. i would be very happy to see a code sample for this problem.

I found one of the article
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=789
Here it is shown how can we add commandbar. It adds one commandbutton and
one combobox to the command bar.

I have used the Outlook Com Add In Template from Randy Bryne "Building
Applictions with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002" to create a command
button on the standard tool bar.
The button is created in the InitHandler subroutine of the OutAddIn

Currently I am working on an outlook add-in for outlook. In this addin
I have to resolve the mobile telephone number of a contact from
Outlook XP. When I try to resolve the mobile telephone number using
the CdoPR_MOBILE_TELEPHONE_NUMBER tag, a blank field is returned. The

I have written some codes in VB whereby it will add UserProperties into
MailItems the moment it is being opened and set some values into it.
The code example is as below:
Public Function uf_add_properties(arg_mailitem As MailItem) As Long

Hi Outlook experts,
I am trying to get the current user's exchange folder.
I know that a user can view other user's folders so I want to avoid
those.  I can find the folder I want using

I was wondering if there is any way to get the whole data stream for
a mailitem, as it comes from the server, from an outlook add-in. I
don't need the fields of the mailitem (i.e. subject, body, etc), but
the whole stream that comes from the pop3 (or whaterver) server. I

Could you please give me some example of how can I programatically send
appointment to the attendees of a meeting that I have added to my outlook.
I want to send the appointment just like outlook sends it. The mail that is
send by the outlook have accept, decline etc kind of buttons ...