I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in to
Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and email
addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to open a
new mail message to that person.

I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that I can
make it easier to send messages.

Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?

Thanks

--
Tony

Two places..

msdn.microsoft.com/office
for general microsoft office stuff, but for outlook specific...

and here are some code samples using outlook

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...st/outlook.asp

hope it helps.

-CJ
"TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in to
> Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and email
> addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to open a
> new mail message to that person.
>
> I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that I
can
> make it easier to send messages.
>
> Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Tony
>
>
>
>

TM,
In addition to CJ's links the following site has a plethora of articles on
using Outlook from .NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

This site, although not necessarily .NET both of these have a lot of Outlook
programming examples & information:

http://www.outlookcode.com/
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/index.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in to
> Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and email
> addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to open a
> new mail message to that person.
>
> I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that I
can
> make it easier to send messages.
>
> Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Tony
>
>
>
>

Ok, most of the addin information is way over my head. I was able to find
the code to list the name and email from the contacts collection, but the
sort property is not working and I am getting a security warning when I try
and run the program saying that a program is trying to access email
addresses I have in outlook and do I want to allow this.

First, how can I bypass that warning in Outlook 2003 ?

Here is my sample code. FOr now I am just adding an item to a listbox with
the fileas name and email address so I can see what is going on. I would
like to add these seperately to a datagrid so it looks nicer. Not sure how
to do that but any help is appreciated.

Any idea why the sort is nor working to sort the contacts by FileAs name ?


Dim OutlookApp As New Outlook.Application

Dim OLNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace

OLNameSpace = OutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Dim allContacts As Outlook.MAPIFolder =
OLNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts)

allContacts.Items.Sort("FileAs")

Dim contact As Outlook.ContactItem

Dim cnt As Integer

lblNumberContacts.Text = "Total Contacts: " & allContacts.Items.Count

lstContacts.Items.Clear()

For cnt = 1 To allContacts.Items.Count

contact = allContacts.Items.Item(cnt)

lstContacts.Items.Add(contact.FileAs & " " & contact.Email1Address)

Next

'cleanup

OutlookApp = Nothing

OLNameSpace = Nothing

Thanks all
--
Tony



"TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in to
> Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and email
> addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to open a
> new mail message to that person.
>
> I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that I
can
> make it easier to send messages.
>
> Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Tony
>
>
>
>

TM,
> First, how can I bypass that warning in Outlook 2003 ?
The warning is there to prevent users from writing viruses, luckily for
Outlook 2003, properly constructed COM-Addins will avoid the warning.

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...scomaddins.asp

Further info can be found at:
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/ol2003problems.htm

The links I gave have samples of creating add-ins.

Both of these are good articles to start with:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...addinvbnet.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302896

Also, be certain you have explicitly installed the Outlook PIAs!

Hope this helps
Jay

"TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ok, most of the addin information is way over my head. I was able to find
> the code to list the name and email from the contacts collection, but the
> sort property is not working and I am getting a security warning when I
try
> and run the program saying that a program is trying to access email
> addresses I have in outlook and do I want to allow this.
>
> First, how can I bypass that warning in Outlook 2003 ?
>
> Here is my sample code. FOr now I am just adding an item to a listbox
with
> the fileas name and email address so I can see what is going on. I would
> like to add these seperately to a datagrid so it looks nicer. Not sure
how
> to do that but any help is appreciated.
>
> Any idea why the sort is nor working to sort the contacts by FileAs name ?
>
>
> Dim OutlookApp As New Outlook.Application
>
> Dim OLNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
>
> OLNameSpace = OutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
>
> Dim allContacts As Outlook.MAPIFolder =
> OLNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts)
>
> allContacts.Items.Sort("FileAs")
>
> Dim contact As Outlook.ContactItem
>
> Dim cnt As Integer
>
> lblNumberContacts.Text = "Total Contacts: " & allContacts.Items.Count
>
> lstContacts.Items.Clear()
>
> For cnt = 1 To allContacts.Items.Count
>
> contact = allContacts.Items.Item(cnt)
>
> lstContacts.Items.Add(contact.FileAs & " " & contact.Email1Address)
>
> Next
>
> 'cleanup
>
> OutlookApp = Nothing
>
> OLNameSpace = Nothing
>
> Thanks all
> --
> Tony
>
>
>
> "TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in to
> > Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and email
> > addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to open
a
> > new mail message to that person.
> >
> > I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that I
> can
> > make it easier to send messages.
> >
> > Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

That is very interesting although it does not explain why the sort property
of the contacts folder is not working

--
Tony



"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> TM,
> > First, how can I bypass that warning in Outlook 2003 ?
> The warning is there to prevent users from writing viruses, luckily for
> Outlook 2003, properly constructed COM-Addins will avoid the warning.
>
> See:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...scomaddins.asp
>
> Further info can be found at:
> http://www.slipstick.com/dev/ol2003problems.htm
>
> The links I gave have samples of creating add-ins.
>
> Both of these are good articles to start with:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...addinvbnet.asp
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302896
>
> Also, be certain you have explicitly installed the Outlook PIAs!
>
> Hope this helps
> Jay
>
> "TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Ok, most of the addin information is way over my head. I was able to
find
> > the code to list the name and email from the contacts collection, but
the
> > sort property is not working and I am getting a security warning when I
> try
> > and run the program saying that a program is trying to access email
> > addresses I have in outlook and do I want to allow this.
> >
> > First, how can I bypass that warning in Outlook 2003 ?
> >
> > Here is my sample code. FOr now I am just adding an item to a listbox
> with
> > the fileas name and email address so I can see what is going on. I
would
> > like to add these seperately to a datagrid so it looks nicer. Not sure
> how
> > to do that but any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Any idea why the sort is nor working to sort the contacts by FileAs name
?
> >
> >
> > Dim OutlookApp As New Outlook.Application
> >
> > Dim OLNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
> >
> > OLNameSpace = OutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
> >
> > Dim allContacts As Outlook.MAPIFolder =
> > OLNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts)
> >
> > allContacts.Items.Sort("FileAs")
> >
> > Dim contact As Outlook.ContactItem
> >
> > Dim cnt As Integer
> >
> > lblNumberContacts.Text = "Total Contacts: " & allContacts.Items.Count
> >
> > lstContacts.Items.Clear()
> >
> > For cnt = 1 To allContacts.Items.Count
> >
> > contact = allContacts.Items.Item(cnt)
> >
> > lstContacts.Items.Add(contact.FileAs & " " & contact.Email1Address)
> >
> > Next
> >
> > 'cleanup
> >
> > OutlookApp = Nothing
> >
> > OLNameSpace = Nothing
> >
> > Thanks all
> > --
> > Tony
> >
> >
> >
> > "TM" <nospam-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I would like to write a little app in Visual Basic .net as an add-in
to
> > > Outlook 2003 so that I can quickly get a list of contact names and
email
> > > addresses, then when I click on a name or email address, I want to
open
> a
> > > new mail message to that person.
> > >
> > > I don't want to send the message, just open a new blank email so that
I
> > can
> > > make it easier to send messages.
> > >
> > > Any idea how I could find out more about how to do this ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>