Outlook Add-In Assistance :)

[sk0tie]

I'd like to create a form in C# and dock it on the Message
(reply and forward) forms of Outlook.

I am an avid C# developer, but I have just recently
started to poke around with creating an Add-In for Outlook
2000 (little E-mail department project for my company).

I have written a pretty well designed E-mail client based
on the CDO 1.21 library, with a ListView docked on the
right that connects to a database of "canned answers" to
rapidly reply to support questions customers have about
our products. While that is just fine for what we do, it
doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Outlook, which
would just take too much time to implement into my
Application.

The best way to have all the functionality of Outlook is
to use Outlook itself, so I want to create an Add-In that
is a dockable form (the ListView database) inside the
Message forms in Outlook.

Using .NET I can easily create the form, but I have no
idea if I can create the form docked inside the Message
forms of Outlook.

Does anybody know if Outlook supports doing something like
this? I've looked through www.slipstick.com but I don't
see any references to creating Add-Ins for Outlook.

Appreciate any assistance I can get!

sk0tie

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Outlook forms don't support any kind of "docking," other than for toolbars. What would be possible would be developing an ActiveX control that could go on a form.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm