calling custom address book from mail form

[Michael Mueller]

Hello,

a customer wants to use his custom address book component from within
Outlook 2003 instead of the default one. His address book should be launched
if a user clicks the TO: or CC: button.

There are several different ways to open the default address book, and he
wants to be able to use his solution from all possible places. But it would
help if the mentioned buttons change their behavior.

Thanks!
Michael M

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook object model provides no way to change the behavior of the buttons to show a different dialog. Maybe it can be done at the Windows API level -- watching for the standard dialog and then suppressing and replacing it.

 

[Michael Mueller]

This means a CBT hook would be the only way to catch the dialog creation and
call another dialog instead.

I hoped there would be a simple solution..

Thank you for making this clear
Michael