Creating a Custom Contact from VB

[Veign]

I've been trying to create a custom contact (contact using a customized
form) from Visual Basic...The problem I keep running into is the
UserProperties to not appear to be accessible during the process of
populating the data on the contact. I have set the messageclass of the
olContactItem when I add, but none of the user properties are accessible..

Any Ideas
Chris

 

[Veign]

Sue, thanx for the response...
Set objFolder = GetFolder("Personal Folders\Contacts\Clients") 'This
walks the folder structure to return the proper folder
Set Contact = objFolder.Items.Add(olContactItem)

'cleanup
Set objFolder = Nothing

With Contact
.MessageClass = "IPM.Contact.NodalClient v2"

'Code to populate the rest

.Save
End with

Set objFolder = GetFolder("Personal Folders\Contacts\Clients")
Set Contact = objFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Contact.NodalClient v2")

'cleanup
Set objFolder = Nothing


Changing the line that adds the Contact type from an olContactItem and then
changing its messageclass property to a line that adds the contact of the
exact messageclass resolved the issue about not having access to the custom
properties...



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Veign
Chris Hanscom
http://www.veign.com
Application Design Section
http://www.veign.com/information/application/info_app.html
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To create a new instance of a custom form programmatically, use the Add
method on the target folder's Items collection. If it's a message form, you
can use the Drafts folder as the target. If the target is a default folder,
you can use the Namespace.GetDefaultFolder method to return it as a
MAPIFolder object. Otherwise, you can use the code at
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/getfolder.htm to walk the folder hierarchy
and return the MAPIFolder corresponding to a given path string.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Exactly. The argument for the Add method needs to be your published form's message class.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm