Student FYP - Creating Outlook 2003 Addin How do I ?

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Hi all,
For my IT final year project I have to access mail items in outlook
2003 and parse them.
I have read and researched on the net and library for about a week
now.
I have to do the project in c# using visualc# 2005 Express Edition.

I know this may limit me to manully coding a little more but I dont
mind that.
So far I think I have to create a COM adddin and communicate via
outlook interpo assemblies to outlook
DO I have to use the COM interface IDTExtensibility2?

Is it simple enough to get a button to appear on the outlook toolbar?
I have seen plently examples that use VSTO & vc# 2005 pro but I dont
have access to those.

Any ideas, hints, tips are all welcome.
Kevin.
 
Kevin,

Yes, IDTExtensibility2 is the interface that you will have to implement.
You will basically hold on to a reference to the application hosting your
add-in and then use the object model of the application (in this case,
Outlook) to add menu items, hook up to events, etc, etc.
 
Kevin,

Yes, IDTExtensibility2 is the interface that you will have to implement.
You will basically hold on to a reference to the application hosting your
add-in and then use the object model of the application (in this case,
Outlook) to add menu items, hook up to events, etc, etc.

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Hi all,
For my IT final year project I have to access mail items in outlook
2003 and parse them.
I have read and researched on the net and library for about a week
now.
I have to do the project in c# using visualc# 2005 Express Edition.
Click to expand...
I know this may limit me to manully coding a little more but I dont
mind that.
So far I think I have to create a COM adddin and communicate via
outlook interpo assemblies to outlook
DO I have to use the COM interface IDTExtensibility2?
Click to expand...
Is it simple enough to get a button to appear on the outlook toolbar?
I have seen plently examples that use VSTO & vc# 2005 pro but I dont
have access to those.
Click to expand...
Any ideas, hints, tips are all welcome.
Kevin.- Hide quoted text -
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Thanks for that
 
No, it's pretty painful but doable. There is an outlook newsgroup that you
can post this to or google to get the code.
 
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