hints on how to get started?

[Chris Markle]

Folks,

I'd like to explore how to do two things in the Outlook email area and,
although I intend to read books, search the web, ask my friends, etc. I'm
hoping you all can give me some hints as to what technologies, facilities,
tools, etc. I might use to accomplish these things - maybe that allows me to
get to the core of this work faster...

1) In the Outlook email messages area (where you're looking at a list of all
messages - row by row) how would I add a column in which I could render an
icon of some sort (or maybe text) to note that the message matches some
criteria (e.g. it's from mom, it's spam, it's been authenticated somehow,
etc.)? The Outlook user should be able to manipulate that new column in a
manner consistent with other columns (e.g. sort, add and delete the column,
resize it, move it around, etc.).

2) When displaying an individual message I'd like to somehow insert some
kind of additional info about the message (related to #1 above) somewhere
reasonably in this display, maybe in the area where the To/From/Subj, etc.
are displayed, maybe as a new "area" between that info and the displayed
message body, or maybe above that info but after the tool bar(s).

Any hints on how to do these things would help zero my search in and would
be much appreciated.

Chris

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Start looking at www.outlookcode.com

You can only create a custom view on a folder (Explorer) in Outlook 2002 or
later by creating an XML view and setting it as the current view for the
folder.

You can't add any information to any of the areas you specify. You would
have do something else, such as a custom form or a toolbar or menu item that
opened a form to display your special fields.