Hi

I am trying to write an add-in in vs2008 for OL2003. Is there a way to trap
the item open event i.e. when a mail item is opened by user? This is to give
user choice of either opening the mail item as normal or allow the add-in to
do something else to the email?

Thanks

Regards

Hi John,

You can achieve this by handling Application.ItemLoad event,
in this you can look for MailItem as an Objet type, if it is then handle
MailItem's Open event.

Thanks,
Ashutosh

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am trying to write an add-in in vs2008 for OL2003. Is there a way to
> trap the item open event i.e. when a mail item is opened by user? This is
> to give user choice of either opening the mail item as normal or allow the
> add-in to do something else to the email?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>

Look at the Application.Inspectors.NewInspector event. It will not let you
cancel the action.
You can also trap the MailItem.Open event (which is canceable), but that
means that you will need to set an an event handler on each selected
messages and track the selection by using the Explorer.SelectionChange
event.

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"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:OU8cywz%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I am trying to write an add-in in vs2008 for OL2003. Is there a way to
> trap the item open event i.e. when a mail item is opened by user? This is
> to give user choice of either opening the mail item as normal or allow the
> add-in to do something else to the email?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>