How can I save a Outlook Message from Clipboard to a file?

Question

If I select an Outlook message from my Inbox and copy it to the clipboard I can paste it as an *.msg file to the Desktop.

Now I want to implement the same feature to my application.

The Clipboard object contains the following elements:

RenPrivateSourceFolder
RenPrivateMessages
RenPrivateItem
FileGroupDescriptor
FileGroupDescriptorW
FileDrop
FileNameW
FileName
FileContents
Object Descriptor
System.String
UnicodeText
Text

FileGroupDescriptor contains a MemoryStream with the filename (Subject.msg) but I don't know how to create a copy from the outlook message from the Clipboard data, since none of the elements seem to contain the message itself.

Any Suggestions?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '11 at 11:48

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Here is an example: Outlook Drag and Drop in C#. The article works with drag and drop but it should be similar if not identical for working with clipboard.

answered Jan 17 '11 at 11:48

Giorgi

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That totally works, thanks mate, I searched the whole internet for an example but missed that page because Clipboard is not in the article. – Jürgen Steinblock Jan 17 '11 at 13:52

score -2 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 21 '12 at 21:52

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Not sure if this will work, but you have to do something like:

if (Clipboard.ContainsText(System.Windows.Forms.TextDataFormat.Text))
{
    IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
    Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
    Outlook.MailItem oMsg = (Outlook.MailItem)data.GetData(DataFormats.Text, true);
}

edited Feb 21 '12 at 21:52

SliverNinja - MSFT

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answered Jan 17 '11 at 11:59

iTSrAVIE

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You can't cast a string to Outlook.MailItem. This is not an answer to the question. – 15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153 Aug 29 '18 at 19:56

How can I save a Outlook Message from Clipboard to a file?

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