Unable to publish Custom form in Outlook 2003

[Mahesh Rao]

Hi there,
I have developed a custom form for workflow automation. It has been
working fine so far on Outlook 2002. After upgrading to Outlook 2003 I'm
unable to open the Form in design mode. It crashes Outlook 2003. I even
added SP1.

My VB program that publishes all Forms automatically too fails to do
so!!

Mahesh

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[Andrea Cacciarru]

I had an analogous problem too, I solved in this way: first of all uninstall
outlook from your computer, then delete every 'outlook' key (taking care to
not delete possible Outlook Express keys) from your windows registry.
Install Outlook 2003.
Good luck!
Andrea

 

[Mahesh Rao]

hi Andrea,
Tell me if you had was a similar scenario like mine. I want to
doublecheck b4 uninstalling.
I double click the .oft file and select one of the folders in All Public
folders. Then it sometimes shows a message:

"To prevent malicious code from running, one or more objects were
disabled. Contact your administrator."

Most of the times, Outlook 2003 crashes. "Contact" forms open with the
same message, but doe not crash Outlook, and open up for development.
This happens only with message (post) form.

Thanks for your advise. I wait to hear from you.

Mahesh

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[Andrea Cacciarru]

If I double clicked on a .oft file Outlook 2003 was crashed with an error
message "an interface error occurred ...[snip]" or "object not valid".
Your problem can inherit to the fact that tour oft file is (or was) an
one-off form: if you has previous converted all your contacts to this form,
you must delete all your contacts (save its before in a backup) and then
re-install outlook. It is recommended that you delete all key entries from
windows registry before you re-install outlook.
Best regards
Andrea

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Unpublished and one-off forms, such as those from .oft files, will load only Outlook-related controls in OL2003. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/ol2003problems.htm#activex