Is it possible to receive new email notificaitons from outlook add-in written
using C# and VSTO for 2005 ? Outlook add-in code needs to be notified when an
email arrives in the inbox, so that the add-in can spawn a web service for
the sender and update a target CRM system.

I have run across a strange problem.  I have created a simple Outlook
2003 Add-in using VSTO in VS2005.
When a new mail message inspector is opened, I add a button to the
inspector's command bar.  This button simply appends some standard text

I am currently developping in C++ (with Visual Studio 6) an outlook
add-in. I need to ask the user to choose something from a combobox. So
what I thought is to do a Dialog Box asking the user to select an item
in a combobox. I did the same thing I would do for a normal exe that

Gi, I am lookinf for a guide as a starying point for developinf Outlook
2000,2002,2003 email filters, can ba a bok or article as aweel.
Thanks in advance,
Carlos Crosetti

Context: Using MAPI, I want to look at certain properties of all messages in
an inbox. Instead of opening an IMessage interface on all of the messages,
which will fetch all properties including a possibly large body and a number
of possibly large attachments, I fetch the contents ...

I'm attempting to add a button (or any other control!) to the inspector
when displaying messages.
The sample below can be executed, and it will add a toolbar and button
in 3 out of 4 cases.

Hello, All!
Is there a way to get information about time span currently selected in
Outlook Calendar?
(Outlook 2003, VS2005/VSTO/C#)

Hi Dmitry,
I've been trying to add some custom fields with Redemtion with no
success. I've seen with OutlookSpy that it works pretty fine, but
somehow my code isn't working. I'm working in OL2003,  and this is my

Ok, I know someone will probably scream at me for posting a question
that's already been asked, but I've just spent an hour searching and
flipping through topics trying to find an answer that I KNOW I've read
out here before and haven't had any luck...so please be gentle.

I have  such code
try {
 ...
} catch(_com_error e) {

I am looking to see if a person is in the office from a outlook
calendar. So really i am looking to see if they are free or busy. Could
anyone show me how to do this please..
Thanks

I'm dealing with attachments on MAPI level (i.e. I'm adding/deleting
attachments using IMessage and attachment table). When I add an attachment
(via IMessage's CreateAttach) I save (SaveChanges) both, attachment and
message object. And after that I can see that Outl recognizes ...

I try to program with VS2005 and VSTO an AddIn to pop up contact type public
folder when call arrives.
I would like to get by program the same Outlook 2003 display that I get
manualy which is this:

I'm using VC++8.0 to developer an Exchange Client Extention for outlook2003.
In IExchExtCommands::DoCommand(LPEXCHEXTCALLBACK lpeecb, UINT cmdid) method
I can catch the Item open action like this:
if( 0x003c == cmdid){ // Menu item "Open" command

My Add-In adds a new Property to eMails. I use the typelibraries for
Outlook2000.
The Add in is developed in Delphi.
The userdefined field 'Printed' will set in the Inspector but not in the