Re: Updating contacts through MAPI directly.

Interesting. My bet is Outlook also adds the contact to the autocomplete
list, which is stored as a file AFAIK.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool


"Darren Kennedy" <darren@electricmail.com> wrote in message
news:037501c33f55$7e502ee0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Yes I did. There were only 3 fields that changed at all.
> These were 0x808D, 0x8092 and 0x809E. I tried adding those
> values to my original code created contact and it still
> didn't fly. Additionally I took the Outlook-saved-contact
> and removed those 3 fields and the contact still worked
> properly with auto-complete.
>
> This leads me to believe that it's not those 3 fields that
> are affecting the contact.
>
> Darren
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Did you try to compare the two contacts (created by your
> code and by
> >Outlook)? You can do that using IMessage|Compare tab in
> OutlookSpy.
> >
> >Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
> >http://www.dimastr.com/
> >OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
> >and MAPI Developer Tool
> >
> >
> >"Darren" <darren@electricmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:117401c33cfb$2b30eb70$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Using Visual C++ 6.0.
> >>
> >> I'm writing an extension that updates contacts by
> working
> >> directly with MAPI. When I create a new contact and add
> in
> >> all the fields that I require (using OutSpy to check all
> >> fields that I believe I need). The contact appears to be
> >> added fine. It looks and acts like an Outlook contact
> with
> >> one MAJOR exception.
> >>
> >> I just can not open a new mail message and get it to
> >> recognize one of these contacts via an autocomplete (ie
> >> type in 'Dar' in To:field and Outlook recognizing it as
> >> the contact "Darren Kennedy (darren@electricmail.com)".
> I
> >> can browse to it in Contacts and double click it though.
> >>
> >> If I open and save a minor change to this contact,
> Outlook
> >> then can recognize it with autocomplete. This all being
> >> said, obviously in my mind there must be some kind of
> >> index set somewhere during Outlooks save process.
> >>
> >> I need this extension to work on 98/00/XP which is why
> I'm
> >> accessing directly thru MAPI instead of Outlooks API,
> >> figuring the same .dll will work with all 3 versions
> (and
> >> it does).
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me? Do I need to #import the type
> >> libraries and maintain 3 different versions of the
> >> extension? Or is there a way to do what I'm trying to do
> >> thru MAPI. In short what other step is being done by
> >> the 'save process' in Outlook other than updating the
> >> Address object.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Darren
> >
> >
> >.
> >