Outlook toolbar add-in help

[Joe Mills]

Hi,

I need to create a custom toolbar button for Outlook 2003 which when clicked
will just forward the selected email to a specified address. I have Visual
Studio.net 2003, VB6 and also the VB.net Express edition. Can someone point
me to some examples on the easiest way of achieving this?

Thank-you - Jo

 

[Bob Chauvin \( Paix dehors \)]

I had a similar task, and opted for VS2005, as it has better support for
VSTO. among many other things. Do yourself a favor, download the 90 day
trial, and the VSTO tookit. From there, building an outlook addin is a
template, with vb.net or c# code.

nice!

 

[Andrei Smolin]

Joe,

will just forward the selected email to a specified address

Just intercept the Click event of your button, get the current
Inspector, then its MailItem and use the Forward method.

Check out Add-in Express .NET (www.add-in-express.com) which provides
ready-to-use components for creating custom toolbars as well as their
controls.

The components solve the problems common for Outlook developers:
creating (and removing) commandbars that work in multi-Explorer and
multi-Inspector environment. Sure, they work correctly with different
Outlook startup modes.

With these components you make your Outlook toolbars (and your command
bar controls) context-specific: they will show up for specified folders
only.You add a custom or built-in controls to you command bar and
intercept their events as easily as you do with usual buttons.

Add the KeyboardShortcut, OutlookBarShortcut, and OptionPaneControl
components to the list.

The tool supports both VS2003 and VS2005, as well as VB.Net 2005
Express and C# 2005 Express. Add-in Express .NET doesn't support VB6
which doesn't seem strange for a .NET-oriented tool .

Note, the tool comes up with the Support Service subscription that may
include consulting in both the tool usage and the Office (and Outlook,
of course) object models.

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader