Custom .NET Control on first page of mail and appointment form

[Michael Mueller]

Hello,

our customer has its own .net component for data input and validation. This
component is already in use in other office applications, with exception of
Outlook 2003 in an Exchange 2003 environment.

The idea is to use this component for inhouse mails. The validated
information will be stored in an user property.

The question is, how to get this visual component onto the first page of
outlooks mail and appointment form.

Thank you!
Michael M

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It is not possible to put a .NET control on the Inspector window in Outlook 2003 unless the folks at http://www.add-in-express.com have some tricks up their sleeve.

 

[Michael Mueller]

Thank you for this information. I did not expect it would be impossible to do
that, since you can add your own Winform programmatically using VSTO 2005 and
Visual Studio 2005. It is possible to show that Winform instead of the
Inspector window.

Thank you!
Michael

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You'll need to wait for Orcas to be able to put .NET controls on an Inspector surface (Outlook 2007) unless you use a third-party solution, but there's nothing wrong with showing a WinForm instead of an Inspector or tiled with an Inspector.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Michael Mueller]

You mean it is possible to have a tiled Winform/Inspector Window with Outlook
2003?
Could you please point me into the right direction for details/samples?

Thank you!
Michael

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No sample, just the basic concept that any two non-modal windows can be displayed side by side by adjusting their sizes. Outlook exposes an Inspector.BeforeSize event you can use to adjust the size of the second window to match.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Michael Mueller]

Ok, I thought you ment both forms to be tiled within the same border.
But this is a look-a-like docking, because if you move one dialog the other
dialog has to snap side by side to the moved one, because there is no parent
window which embeds both dialogs.

Thank you for this helpful post
Best regards
Michael M