The way to use standard Outlook "find item" panel for custom created folders in the AddIn

[Alexus]

Hello. I need advice, please help me

I developing some Outlook addin and created some folders, where I
use .NET user controls (I incorporate controls to the page by creating
them as ActiveX objects and set WebViewOn property of folder to true
and generate html content that displays my ActiveX object).

On some folder I use datagrid for displaying some items from the
database.

Now I need to develop searching feature for this datagrid and I
wonder, is it possible to use standard "find item" panel, which is
displaying when a user click "Find" button on the toolbar.

If it is possible please suggest the way that I can use to enable this
panel for my folders and to get the user input and handle user click
on the "Find Now" button.

Very Thanks!

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You have to create all that from scratch. There's no way to re-use the
Outlook dialogs. You can use AdvancedSearch if the data is within an Outlook
store and set up a UI to call that and to display the returned results, but
even that you have to code entirely yourself.