ADD-in developmenet advise

[John]

Hi

I need to develop an add-in for outlook 2003 and above that does the
following;

When a certain external application sends email via outlook, the outlook
add-in adds certain info into a database table. Some of this info comes from
the calling external application.

I have not developed an outlook add-in before but I am a proficient
developer of vba and vb.net. What would be a good place to start for this
sort of project?

Many Thanks

Regards

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Start at http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=36
Essentially you will need to trap the Application.ItemSend event and read
the data from the item passed to your event handler.

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

 

[John]

Thanks. Is it true that vsto add in written for outlook 2003 will not work
for later outlook versions? I am trying to avoid traditional vb as it is now
bit old and I want to stick to current technologies if possible.

Thanks

Regards

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

No, an add-in developed in the Outlook 2003 environment will work in Outlook
2007. But the opposite is not true.

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