Programatically change item's icon

[dorutzu]

Hi,

I would like to be able to put a different custom icon on each e-mail
in a folder. In order to achive this, I thought of the 2 possibilites
below:

1) Add my custom icons to the default ones in Outlook's resources
(probably some DLLs), and then programatically change my mailitems'
PR_ICON_INDEX field. The problem here is that I don't know where
Outlook keeps these resources (default icons), and if/how can I add my
icons to this collection (programatically would be super).

2) Create a custom form for my mailitems, set PR_ICON_INDEX field to
-1 (to use the custom form icon), and then, somehow (if you can help
me here programatically change the form's icon for each item, so
they will look diferent. The problem here is that even if I can change
each icon, I don't know if this change will be persistent and won't
mess up the form & stuff.

3)...any other ideas?

I would apreciate any ideas/suggestions/etc.

Thanks for all your help,
Doru

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

That's about it.
For #2, you'd need to change the message class (PR_MESSAGE_CLASS)
appropriately.

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