Need a tutorial/book to help me develop a plugin for Outlook 2003 and 2007 using VSTO 2005

[charly]

Hello Everybody,

I desperately need material in form of books or tutorial to learn how to develop a plugin for Outlook 2003 and 2007 using C#. My environment is Windows XP with Office 2003 and VSTO 2005 and I am using Visual Studio professional 2003. My plugin should add buttons, folders, connect to a database, create forms, do some processing with fields in those forms, add icon, images and display/save reports.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Most or all of the code I'm aware of for Outlook 2007 uses VS 2005, and for
VSTO uses VSTO 2005 SE. I don't think you could load any of the code samples
for those versions in your setup. You could type in code samples and try to
adapt the VSTO 2005 SE stuff to VSTO 2005.

Go to the books page of Outlookcode.com to find a list of books that are
available for Outlook programming
(http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=2). There are also a number of
sample addins from those books and from the MSDN Office Web site, but as
mentioned those all use VS 2005.

 

[charly]

Thank you Ken,
It is indeed true you answer fast and of course appropriately. I will install VS 2005. Since I have Office 2003 (Outlook 2003), I hope my plugin will also work on Outlook 2007.
Thank you again

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Addins developed under Outlook 2003 work in Outlook 2007 with no changes.
They normally won't support the new Ribbon of course using the
Outlook/Office 2003 object models.