Using .NET addins in Outlook XP

[Dan Fergus]

Don't know if this is the bets place to ask, but here goes.

I've written an addin for Outlook XP ising C# and .NET and it works great!.
My only problem is that I want to put a picture on the toolbar, instead of a
caption. The toolbar wants a IPictureDisp but .NET is an Image object.
I've seen some references to AxHost but then method I see called is not in
the AxHost object on my box.

Any ideas or pointer would be welcomed.

Dan Fergus

 

[Tony Archer]

Well, good luck on this there is VERY little documentation on settig the
icon.
You can use an existing icon with the .FaceID property of the button OR you
can set it ... I'll leave you with the article I found:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_customfaces_net.asp

 

[TR]

This is how you can do it in C#:

public class PicConversion//: System.Windows.Forms.AxHost
{
public static stdole.IPictureDisp
GetIPictureDispFromImage(System.Drawing.Image img)
{
return
(stdole.IPictureDisp)typeof
(System.Windows.Forms.AxHost).InvokeMember(
"GetIPictureDispFromPicture",
BindingFlags.InvokeMethod |
BindingFlags.NonPublic |
BindingFlags.Static, null, null, new object[] { img });

}
}