Howto: ask Inspector to refresh its item cache

[tonyl]

Hi,

I have written an application which update the content of contact and
appointment in outlook using Extended MAPI.

However, I found that once the user views the appointment A through the outlook's
inspector, the outlook will cache the content.
1. open the appointment A by outlook inspector.
2. my application update the appointment A through MAPI
3. open the appointment A by outlook inspector again. --> the content of
appointment A doesn't change.
4. open the appointment A by outlookspy, --> i can see that the properties
have been updated.

How to ask the outlook refresh the data cache after my application update
the data through MAPI?

Regards,
Tony

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Can't do that - everybody suffers from the same problem...

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[tonyl]

Thanks alot.
How nice the outlook is.

Regards,
Tony

 

[j]

Outlook doesn't refresh the cache till there are references to these
object, try to release the object by Marshal.ReleaseComObject.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

That wouldn't work for changes made by Extended MAPI, Outlook isn't aware of
those changes.