Can someone point me in the right direction?

I am trying to develop a plugin for Outlook 2002. All it does is scan an
incomming message and if the message fits certain criteria it sends the data
to a program that I've created with VB.NET to process it....

I'm very familiar with VB6 and a little VB.NET, but I don't know much about
creating plugins or Add-Ins. I'm assuming I would use the
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook COM reference to talk with the outlook.

I guess I'm stuck on how to I get my program to install into Outlook? Or
create a new toolbar on Outlook.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Mike

Look at the Resources page at www.microeye.com The ItemsCB COM addin
sample in VB6 shows Outlook COM addin best practices and adding
command buttons. There is also a link there to information about COM
addins using the .NET languages.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
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"Mike G." <mike@home.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to develop a plugin for Outlook 2002. All it does is
scan an
> incomming message and if the message fits certain criteria it sends
the data
> to a program that I've created with VB.NET to process it....
>
> I'm very familiar with VB6 and a little VB.NET, but I don't know
much about
> creating plugins or Add-Ins. I'm assuming I would use the
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook COM reference to talk with the
outlook.
>
> I guess I'm stuck on how to I get my program to install into
Outlook? Or
> create a new toolbar on Outlook.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mike
>
>
>