Accessing an Outlook Add-in via redemption

Question

Is is possible to access an outlook add-in via redemption, rather than me adding the add-in to my application, I am not sure if this is possible.

What is your end goal? – Eugene Astafiev Aug 25 '22 at 15:13 — Eugene Astafiev, Aug 25 '22 at 15:13
Are you trying to do something with a a third-party addin? – Dmitry Streblechenko Aug 25 '22 at 15:46 — Dmitry Streblechenko, Aug 25 '22 at 15:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '22 at 15:13

Redemption is a wrapper around Extended MAPI, not Outlook. So, it doesn't provide anything for dealing with Outlook features like add-ins.

You can get the Outlook running instance or create a new one of none exists and then access the COM add-ins list. The COMAddIns property of the Application class returns a COMAddIns collection that represents all the Component Object Model (COM) add-ins currently loaded in Microsoft Outlook.

Private Sub CountCOMAddins() 
 MsgBox "There are " & Application.COMAddIns.Count & " COM add-ins." 
End Sub

Accessing an Outlook Add-in via redemption

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