How to detect a virtual folder in Ol2003?

[Ronald van Aalten]

Hi,

How can I programmatically detect a virtual folder (=search folder) in
outlook 2003? The mapifolder object is valid. Is there a (ext.mapi) property
to check?

Ronald

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

IMAPIFolder::GetSearchCriteria() fails for regular folders, but works for
the search folders.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Ronald van Aalten]

I'm using VB6 so there's no way to call the GetSearchCriteria (?). Is there
another way?

Ronald

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Certain properties will return errors if the MAPIFolder is a search folder, so that's one way to tell -- see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/ol2003problems.htm#searchfolders.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

I can only think of calling MAPIFolder.Items.Add - it will fail for the
Search folders. For the regular folders you can immediately delete the
returned message.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool