Embbeding third party product screens into Outlook

[Wass]

Hi,

My first post here, I’m hoping someone can help me or point me in the right
direction with this query. Most of our users work through Outlook and we have
third party product which integrates with Outlook 2003/2007. Basically the
third party product creates toolbar at the top in Outlook with buttons
allowing the user to create letters or search for files etc. We also have
folder list under users Inbox with sub folders for each file created in third
party product. At the moment when the user selects these folders it
display’s some info but what we would really like to do is embed the full
screen into outlook so when the user selects one of files from subfolders it
displays the screen as it would be display if you had the third party
products opened.

Is this possible in Outlook 2003/2007 using VB?

Can someone point to sample code or website.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

It may be possible, although the bulk of the code would be Win32 API
programming.

In general you'd need to get the handle of the window in Outlook that is
where you want the information displayed, add your own window as a child
window of Outlook and move/resize the existing Outlook windows to make room
for your window. You'd need to handle every message sent to Outlook for
resizing, moving, minimizing, closing, etc. to adjust your window to the new
conditions.

Then you'd somehow have to get all the information you need from that 3rd
party application somehow, if that's possible at all, and work out how you'd
want to display it in that custom window of yours.