Accessing custom items using Outlook API and .net

[ylarom]

Hi

I have a C# program that scans Outlook items using the Outlook API.
To handle the different types of items I use a kind of switch:

if (oItem is Outlook.DocumentItem) ...
else if (oItem is Outlook.MailItem) ...
else if (oItem is Outlook.AppointmentItem) ...

The thing is I think I may be losing custom forms.

I take it there may be two kinds of custom items:
1. Derived from basic types, for example IPM.Contact.Employee
2. 'All-Custom', for exmample, IPM.AntiVirus

Is there a way to handle these by the Outlook API, or will I have to
resort to using CDO/MAPI?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See my response to your post in the other group.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for general Outlook programming issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba

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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