How do I add a new option in the context menu(Outlook)?

[Guest]

How do I add a new option in the context menu in Outlook?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook does not directly expose the right-click context menu in its CommandBars collection. You will, however, see a new right-click command is when the item selected is using a custom form that includes one or more custom actions. You can also add a custom action without using a custom form, as demonstrated at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=526

Richard Kagerer has posted a code sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=314 that shows how you might trick Outlook into exposing the context menu through Explorer.CommandBars.

The C++ sample add-in at http://www.codeproject.com/atl/outlook2k3addin.asp also shows a technique for working with the context menu.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for your response.
Is there any possibility to do that by using Delphi programming? What I want
to do is when somone right clicks on an email, the context menu that appears
must contain another link with a new functionality - exporting my email in
another format and save it on the disk.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Given that all the available methods are unsupported, they're probably as likely to work in Delphi as in any other code environment.

 

[Guest]

You have right...it not depends on the language programming...my question is:
it is doable what I want to do?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The only possible answer is maybe -- try one or more of the methods outlined below -- and if you do it with anything other than a custom action, it will be unsupported.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers