getting item type

[Lars Roland]

I have made an outlook addin where the user can select some emails from
the email view and push on a buttton, to do somthing with these
emails. What i want is for my addin to display a warning if the user tries
to click the button on an item that is not an email (a contact, or
something else).

I use Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection to get my hands on the
users selection. Can I from this somhow check if the selection is a email
???.




Thanks.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Set an Object to each member of the selection collection and check the Class
of the item. It will be an email if olMail class. You can also check for the
folder type and disable your button in the BeforeFolderSwitch event if the
folder is a contacts or whatever folder. That's actually a method that's
used more often.