Programmatically using the "resend this message" action?

[Dave M]

Hi, I'm very new to the whole Add-In world. For my first add-in, I wanted
to address the resending feature.

Our spam engine requires that emails get resent to a particular email address.
I personally got tired of double-clicking an email, just so I could select
Actions -> Resend this message. I figured that adding a new menu to the Menu
Bar would be the best way (in addition to having an accelerator key, like
Ctrl-Shift-P).

So I actually have three questions:

1. Is there a really good online resource for programming Outlook, or should
I go and purchase Microsoft Outlook Programming?

2. By searching through online resources, I managed to get the new menu to
appear in Outlook, but can't figure out how to get accelerator keys (like
Ctrl-Shift-P, etc) to work.

3. What objects in the Application object should I be looking at to try to
figure out how to perform the "Resend this message" action in my command
handler?

I'm a VC++ programmer, but the only examples I could find online are in VB,
so I'm using VB6 at the moment, until I can learn how to port to VC++. My
intial attempts using ATL would compile, but the add-in would never appear
in Outlook, even though the add-in properties were clearly listed in the
registry...

Any information on the above three questions would be really appreciated!

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) As far as online resources go, these newsgroups have answered just about every question. Search them with Google,

2) Outlook does not support custom keyboard shortcuts, only accelerator keys set with the ampersand in the command caption.

3) CommandBars. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/tips/commandbarfun.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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