Cannot programmatically open custom message in custom form

[Guest]

Hello

I have installed an OL form to handle custom messages, ie. messages with
extended properties. I also installed menu and toolbar to handle custom
messages.
Creating new custom message from OL GUI works fine - the new message opens
in my custom form.
But sadly, opening a custom message programmatically fails - the message
always opens in the standard OL form, not my custom form. Meaning that not
all the message properties can be displayed or edited for a programmatically
opened message.
Could this be because the FormDescription.MessageClass is wrong?
Outlook Spy reveals that the message's MessageClass is correct:
IPM.NOTE.MYNOTE, while the message's FormDescription.MessageClass is wrong:
IPM.NOTE.
How to change the read-only property FormDescription.MessageClass...? Is
there anything else that could cause this problem?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm not sure what you mean by "opening a custom message programmatically." Can you post a code snippet. Also, did you create a separate read layout for your IPM.Note.MyNote? If not, then you're probably seeing your custom form, but it's using the default read layout.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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