Visual Basic fand Forms

[nevents]

Using Basic
May I create custom form in Outlook
Thanks
Steve Elste

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Please clarify exactly what you're trying to do.

 

[nevents]

the standart contact form lets me chose contact info for one contact. I
need to create a form that will be a conflict resolution form. There
needs to be two different buttons, referring to two
separate contact lists. And the user needs to be able select from the
first button -- the person with the complaint. Second button,
complaint about this person.

Alternatively, to creating my own form, I see in the field chooser that
there seems to be something called a conflict resolution form? but
can't seem to find the actual form?

This is what I am trying to do. I also see that in the Outlook object
model there is something called the FormDescription object. So, I
wondered if there was some way to create a form from scratch, using
visual basic. But there would be no need to do so if I could create
the custom form in Outlook.

Perhaps there is a repository of donwloadable forms somewhere? It
seems like someone must have already create a complaint form or forms
for Outlook. I have been combing through the slaptik.com site but no
luck so far.

Thanks
Steve Elster

 

[nevents]

the standart contact form lets me chose contact info for one contact. I
need to create a form that will be a conflict resolution form. There
needs to be two different buttons, referring to two
separate contact lists. And the user needs to be able select from the
first button -- the person with the complaint. Second button,
complaint about this person.

Alternatively, to creating my own form, I see in the field chooser that
there seems to be something called a conflict resolution form? but
can't seem to find the actual form?

This is what I am trying to do. I also see that in the Outlook object
model there is something called the FormDescription object. So, I
wondered if there was some way to create a form from scratch, using
visual basic. But there would be no need to do so if I could create
the custom form in Outlook.

Perhaps there is a repository of donwloadable forms somewhere? It
seems like someone must have already create a complaint form or forms
for Outlook. I have been combing through the slaptik.com site but no
luck so far.

Thanks
Steve Elster

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There are lots of sample forms out there. See:

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mssampleapps.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/olforms/index.htm

You might find the code sample at
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/popcombobox.htm useful; it shows how to
use CDO (for better performace) to populate a combo box with information
from an Outlook folder.

I didn't understand what you were seeing in the Field Chooser.

You cannot use VB to create a form used by Outlook to display data. You must
build on one of the standard forms and use the Outlook forms designer.
(Unless you want to build your own form with Extended MAPI and C++ or
Delphi.)