Open Outlook OFT template and populate recipient address

Question

Working in a Windows Forms application and VB.NET.

I need to pop open an Office "New Message" window, populate the "To" address, and place an OFT template in the body of the message. I do not need to modify anything in the template.

To open the new message with the template, i could:

Diagnostics.Process.Start("MyFile.oft")

But this will not help with setting the TO address, or subject.

I also don't want to download any third party add-ons.

Any help??

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '14 at 21:47

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You can use the Outlook Object Model and call Application.CreateItemFromTemplate. You can then set Subject/To/CC/BCC properties and the Recipients collection on the returned MailItem object.

answered Mar 05 '14 at 21:47

Dmitry Streblechenko

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This works great, thank you. Is there any way to make the popup have focus, as it's currently displaying behind all open windows. – adam Mar 06 '14 at 15:06
Call MailItem.GetInspector, then call Inspector.Display and Inspector.Activate. – Dmitry Streblechenko Mar 06 '14 at 16:04
Thank you, again! Also found that .Display(true) instead of just .Display() works. – adam Mar 06 '14 at 16:20

Open Outlook OFT template and populate recipient address

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