Adding text to an email using an Outlook addin C# 2010

Question

I want to add some text to the body of my email. But i keep getting this error:

Error 1 'EmailHelper.EmailHelperRibbon' does not contain a definition for 'Application' and no extension method 'Application' accepting a first argument of type 'EmailHelper.EmailHelperRibbon' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

My code looks like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace EmailHelper
{
    public partial class EmailHelperRibbon
    {
        private void EmailHelperRibbon_Load(object sender, RibbonUIEventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
        {
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Your Ribbon Works!");
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem mailItem = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)
                this.Application.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
            {
                mailItem.Subject = "This text was added by using code";
                mailItem.Body = "This text was added by using code";
            }

        }
    }
}

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '14 at 23:48

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Try this one:

var inspector = this.Context as Outlook.Inspector;
var currentMailItem = inspector.CurrentItem as Outlook.MailItem;
currentMailItem.Body = "your text";

answered Jul 30 '14 at 23:48

Osama

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 14 '14 at 12:08

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I am guessing this is a Ribbon based on the name, so you need to access the application off of the Globals class:

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.CreateItem(...)

answered Jun 14 '14 at 12:08

John Koerner

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Gets me past the error but it doesnt add the text to subject or body of the email.. – PriceCheaperton Jun 14 '14 at 19:08

Adding text to an email using an Outlook addin C# 2010

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