Find Public Folder

[David Whicker]

Hi,

I have a VB COM addin running well for our users of Outlook 2003.
They file prolifically in Exchange 2003 Public Folders, and currently
have in excess of 50,000 folders.

This lead to a request to speed up the process of opening up the "Find
Public Folder" dialogue box. I cannot find a way of adding this to a
custom toolbar.

Is there a way to launch the Outlook "Find Public Folder" dialogue box
from VB?

Failing that is there a way to query Exchange for Public Folder Names
from VB?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

David Whicker
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[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Do you mean the PickFolder dialog that is a method of the NameSpace object?
You cannot customize that but you can bring it up in code. To present a
customized dialog you would need to iterate the complete public folders
collection and display the results in a treeview control on a form.

Some of that would go much quicker if you use CDO 1.21 code (optional
installation with Outlook 2000 or later) or Redemption code (3rd party
library located at www.dimastr.com/redemption), both of those can be a lot
faster than Outlook object model code when iterating collections.