Student FYP - Creating Outlook 2003 Addin How do I ?

[ITrishGuru]

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.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

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.

 

[ITrishGuru]

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.

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.- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for that

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

No, it's pretty painful but doable. There is an outlook newsgroup that you
can post this to or google to get the code.