Add-In works in Excel and Word, but not Outlook

[KenRoy]

The example "How to Build an Office COM Addin by using Visual Basic .NET"
works in Word and Excel, but no events are triggered in Outlook
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q302896). It is
cut and pasted from the Step by Step Example in this article.

Thanks.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You're going to have to run in debug mode to see what's wrong. See if you
get OnConnection and if you are getting through the button initialization.
FWIW, I think it's a bad idea to use an Outlook addin as a shared addin with
Word, Excel, PPT, etc. I do shared addins for the other apps but always do
separate Outlook addins. There are just too many oddities and bugs in
Outlook's handling of things like OnDisconnection to make a fully shared
addin viable, in my opinion.

 

[KenRoy]

No, the OnConnection is not triggering.

I'm very new to Office Coding and found this shared addin example. I have
an outside app that I'd like to send an email to someone for approval. I'd
like them to be able to open the e-mail and click a button to run some code
which would "approve" the request.

Where would I find an example of a "non-shared" addin?
Thanks!

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Look at all the sample code at www.outlookcode.com. That may be the only
example of an Outlook addin shared with the other Office apps out there in
the wild.