Given a conversationindex and conversationtopic, how do I find a mailitem?  I
have looked at Session.GetDefaultFolder(...).Items.Find but I do not see any
examples of how to construct the search string with these parameters.
Thank you,

I have an addin developed using VC++. I am planning to create an agent that
is going to check for updates and do an automatic update of this addin. The
question I have is: can the automatic update be done without closing outlook?
If Outlook is open when the agent tries to update, ...

Can anyone recommend the best Outlook Add-in development (expert) companies?
We have a complex add-in requirement that we are considering outsourcing
development for.
Thanks

Given a master appointment item, is there a way to use Find or
Restrict methods on the Items collection to get all the occurrences?
I was going to do something like this:
calendaritems.Sort("Start")

Hello, I'm writing an addin for Outlook. I want to enumerate attached
files in new created  or editing message. Default editor is MS Word.
How can I get Outlook's pointer for my purpouses or is there any other
chances?

I have seen posts and have also experienced first hand that there can be many
complications to making modifications to a mailitems subject, body and
attachments during an itemsend event.  Is the proper method to make a copy of
the mailitem in itemsend, make mods to the copy and ...

I am trying to create a command bar in the NewInspector event.  The code
seems to be working fine on Office 2003 and 2007 but throws an exception in
Office XP when I access the CommandBars.Add function.  Any ideas why?
Other things I am noticing are

In a com add-in, is there a way to programatically test whether an
appointmentItem object is a series master, or just an occurrence in
the series?  I found that the IsRecurring property is True, whether or
not the item is the master.  And I don't see anything like an IsMaster

this is a much discussed problem, i m trying to use an outlook addin
which creates a button to the newInspector on clik of which some form
is opend.
it works fine for me when use all the other editors.. except word.

I've written an Outlook add-in in VS.net 2005, which when a user sends
an email it pops up a custom dialog. There are several buttons on the
form, one of which is a cancel button. If the user pushes the cancel
button then the dialog closes and it should cancel sending the email

Does anyone have code to capture the new inspector event from c# using late
binding?  I need to be able to capture this event in an Office version
neutral way.
I put some code together but it fails on the advise method with an invalid

I'm trying to setup a toolbar drop down button, something similar to
the 'new' button. Everything is in place, except that I can't set an
icon for it. There must be a way, after all the new button has an
icon.

We've been developing Outlook components for several years.  These include
Exchange client extensions, COM Add-ins and Service Providers, all written
in C++.  In line with Microsoft our client extensions have virtually
disappeared, and most code is now in the COM Add-in; but with ...

I'm writing a simple C++/ATL program that is interacting w/ the
Outlook object model. There seems to be some odd change to
Application.CreateItem for Outlook 2007. Here are my simple lines of
code:

i would like to save a copy of a dummy mail which i create in code to
the SentItems folder. i dont want to actually send it. i saw it
working in the LinkedIn Toolbar for outlook while sending invitations
to contacts. They dont sent the mail using outlook rather some web