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Outlook addins are self-contained programs that modify,extend or add functionality to Microsoft Outlook desktop client. Please use "outlook-web-addins" tag for questions regarding the new model of Outlook Add-ins, which are web-based and can run on Desktop, Web, and Mobile.

Outlook addins are self-contained programs that modify, extend or add functionality to Microsoft Outlook desktop client. They are either COM addins or VSTO addins.

These addins are typically written using tools:

  1. Visual Studio
  2. Visual Studio Tools for Office
  3. VB6

Visual Studio 2013 prior editions provide project templates which can be used to create application-level add-ins for Microsoft Outlook. You can use add-ins to automate Outlook, extend Outlook features, or customize the Outlook user interface.

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

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…
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Start Outlook add in with ribbon

I'm developing an Outlook Add In. It's pretty much done already, but there's one thing that I can't seem to put my finger on. In my (Outlook Add In) project I added a new item (Ribbon (Visual Designer)) which I called EmailTransferRibbon. This…
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Programmatically Change Look of Outlook Appointments

I am trying to programmatically change the look & feel of outlook appointments in the calendar, e.g., add an icon to each appointment or similar. Is there any way of doing this? I have looked through the documentation, but could not find anything.…
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How to create a shared calendar from my outlook add-in

I need to create an outlook add-in where appointments will trigger some functionality. For example when an appointment starts I will make a HTTP post request to a server from my outlook addin. Anyways these appointments need to be synchronized. That…
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avoid deleting attachments in outlook using addin programming

I wonder if there is any way to avoid deleting attachments in outlook mailItem using code either with right clicking and select remove or delete by pressing delete key. I didn't find any solution like [beforeAttachment] event for it.
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Get date time from conversation index timestamp

In Outlook there is a concept of conversation indexes. The original email will have a conversation index like so: 01017C2A2FF4481FED6C146C98A04E2FDB77CEFE8E239603ED7DE0 According to many google searches a reply appends a datetime stamp to…
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My Outlook context menu (add-in) button fires multiple times per one click

So I've got this context menu working out except that the event behind the actual selection of the menu item seems to fire multiple times. First time I click it, it fires once, then twice, then 3 times. So, in the example I just gave, for 3 clicks…
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Outlook ole error 800A01A8 when closing it with more than 10 outlook-explorer windows

I have written an Outlook plugin in Delphi 2009 that opens a database connection and does some tasks to accompany my main application. When Outlook is now closed it raises an 800A01A8 ole error, but only if you had about 10 outlook-explorer windows…
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Reading outlook PST file using JavaScript

I'm looking for a way to read a pst file and use JavaScript to parse it. I need to read the contacts and the calendar meetings stored in the file. Is it possible? Thanks.
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Outlook 2013 add-in dynamic context menu

I have an Outlook 2007 add-in that I am trying to get to work in Outlook 2013. It is mostly working, but the additional context menu items that the add-in displays when right-clicking on emails and folders did not initially show up in Outlook 2013.…
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Run asynchronous tasks on outlook start up

I have an outlook add in that contains one form , there are 6 web-service calls should be executed on form load to get binding data and these calls make the load for frame too slow. how can I run these calls (asynchronously) for one time on outlook…
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Outlook 2013 detected a slow addin

I developed an Addin which consists of Login and the data entry and retrieval functionality. The data entry and retrieval are accessed through REST URL's. The Outlook Startup doesnt has any code, except it checks the outlook version. I implement a…
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Outlook 2010 Add-In not getting installed correctly by WiX

I am trying WiX 3.8 for the first time, trying to create a setup for a simple Outlook 2010 add-in. The add-in, apart from other things, needs to create a ribbon tab on the Compose. I guess I a missingn something in my Product.wxs. When I execute the…
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OUTLOOK VSTO: what is the result of Application.Session.GetItemFromID(entryid, null) when the entryid has changed?

Help newbie to outlook VSTO, and have inherited some code for an OUTLOOK addin. in one method we are looking for a mailitem with this call. theItem = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Session.GetItemFromID(argEntryID, null); We had a bug in the addin…
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Outlook Version language

I am developing an outlook 2007 add in. How can i know the outlook language(English or French version..)
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