Extending Presona Menu in Outlook

[Ankur_Kumar]

Hi All,

I want to add a menu item under additional actions under persona menu of
office applications. I have acheived the same using xml for smart tags but i
want to do programitically. I want to use c#, .net 2005 team suite.

Thanks in advance

Ankur

 

[Jitendra Shirolkar]

Hi All,

I want to add a menu item under additional actions under persona menu of
office applications. I have acheived the same using xml for smart tags but i
want to do programitically. I want to use c#, .net 2005 team suite.

Thanks in advance

Ankur

Hello Ankur

There are two ways to customize Persona Menu
1. using XML (You Know)
2. Writting Dll using manage (C#.Net) code and Unmanage code (C++)

We can write Dll using Smart Tag SDK. you can reffer following link to get
Detail Idea of it. It is best place to start with.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190881(office.11).aspx

you can refer Tutorials in that.

Thanks,

 

[Ankur_Kumar]

Hi Jitendra,

Thanks for your valuable reply. I got success in creating a managed code dll
for smart tag but that is not serving my purpose. The smart tag i have
created is appearing only for each office editor applications (like word...),
but i wanted to extend the persona menu by adding smart tag (additional
actions) into it. Can you please guide me to do appropriate registry entries.
The same thing i am able to achieve using xml.

Rgds,
Ankur

 

[Jitendra Shirolkar]

Hello Ankur,

What you want to do actually?
Can you explain your problem in brief?

You have created a new smart tag or you want to customize Persona Menu?

Thanks.

 

[Ankur_Kumar]

Hi Jitendra,

I want to create a managed dll which could create an entery in Persona menu
(according to my knowledge, this can only be done under additional action sub
menu) and handles the action(click) and perform some operation.

Rgds,
Ankur

 

[Jitendra Shirolkar]

Hello Ankur,

Did you implement the Action Interface. If not follow this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa168695(office.11).aspx.

If yes,
did you register the Dll properly ? Using CLSID or ProcId?

Thanks.

 

[Jitendra Shirolkar]

Hello ankur,

Try to download Smart Tag SDK. In that you will get sample code and one
help file (.CHM). That help file will be sufficient for you.

Thanks.

 

[Ankur_Kumar]

Hi Jitendra,

Yes i have defiend an action class and declared CLSID.

I have implemented a smart tag for office editors like offive word, outlook
editor(the window you get when you click "new") and other office editors.
there my action class is working fine.

But the same this is not working if i go for Persona Menu. i feel that i am
not doing correct registry entry for action class.

Thanks and regards,
Ankur.

 

[Jitendra Shirolkar]

Hello ankur,

Check your registry entry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\Smart Tag\Actions

Also not to forget to register your dll by following command

regsvr32 "Dll Name with path".


This link may help you
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa168710(office.11).aspx

Thanks.

 

[Ankur_Kumar]

Hi Jitendra,

I am still not able to extend persona menu. I want my option to be appear in
the additional action sub0menu, say "Click This" and on click that i want to
send a http request with the parameter as the person's name.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ankur Kumar.