Programmatically set "automatically generate microsoft exchange views" ?

[Neal]

Hi all

I'm trying to find out how to set "automatically generate microsoft exchange
views" on various folders in Outlook 2003 programmatically. I can't find
much documentation on this.

I don't really care which programming environment I have to do this from.

The most promising was CDO folder property CdoPR_GENERATE_EXCHANGE_VIEWS
(&H36E9000B) as documented on CDOLIVE. Unfortunately this seems to be no
longer supported :-(

Can someone point me at some more in depth or up to date documentation, or
help me out here ?


Many thanks

Neal

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

That's the only documentation on that property I've ever seen. Why do you
say it's not supported?

 

[Neal]

Ken, thanks for your interest.

2 things lead me to believe it's not supported:

I am using Interop.MAPI.dll v1.21.0.0 via c#

When I use the object browser to look at the properties available under
cdoPropTags, I do not see CdoPR_GENERATE_EXCHANGE_VIEWS, while I do see most
of the others mentioned on CDOLIVE.

I was just about to say when I try to find the property with the numeric
value rather than a property name it fails, and it's just started working !!
So I either made a mistake testing it last week, or by sheer power of you
thinking about it it started working

Thanks

 

[Neal]

Further investigation sheds more light, this only actually works against the
Inbox, any other folder (sent mail, contacts etc) all fail with

Error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8004010F):
[Collaboration Data Objects - [MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND(8004010F)]]

Any ideas how to get to this for other folders other than inbox ?

cheers

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

I don't know, I haven't used that property since the Exchange 5.5 days. I do
know however that using CDO 1.21 is not supported and mostly will blow up if
used from managed code.

 

[Neal]

I take it there is no other alternative at the moment other than:

- Do it in unmanaged environment (e.g vb6) or
- Wait for Outlook 2007 to roll-out in my environment
?

I don't know, I haven't used that property since the Exchange 5.5 days. I
do know however that using CDO 1.21 is not supported and mostly will blow
up if used from managed code.

Further investigation sheds more light, this only actually works against
the Inbox, any other folder (sent mail, contacts etc) all fail with

Error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8004010F):
[Collaboration Data Objects - [MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND(8004010F)]]

Any ideas how to get to this for other folders other than inbox ?

cheers

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Or try another API for managed code such as Redemption (www.dimastr.com),
even Extended MAPI isn't an option for managed code, it's not supported
either.