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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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Outlook addin Home tab with custom button

Hey all I am trying to create a button within the default Home tab in Outlook 2010. Problem being is that, in VS2013 I added a Ribbon (visual) and added the group with the button but it keeps adding that to the TabAddIns tab. What do I need to set…
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How to add a group to multiple built-in Ribbon tabs (vsto)?

This is VS2010 + Office 2010 add-in. All I want is to add a button (or button group) to multiple built-in tabs. For example, my buttons should be available in both New Mail Message Ribbon and in New Appointment Ribbon. I have tried adding a new tab…
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Event on "Item Sent" in Outlook

I'm using ApplicationEvents_11_ItemSendEventHandler (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.applicationevents_11_itemsendeventhandler.aspx) to do some processing when an item is sent from Outlook. However, as…
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vsto + differentiate attachments

I need to get and save the attachments(s) from a mail item, but using the code below returns all attachments - meaning it also returns the embedded images like the sender's signature with logo which is an image. How can I differentiate a true…
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Outlook 2010 AddIn in the TabAppointment Tab

I tried to add my Outlook 2010 Add-In to the TabAppointment Tab. It perfectly works when I add it to the TabCalendar, but if you click on a appointment in the calendar another tab will be shown and this tab I guess is the TabAppointment. And of…
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Get Inboxes from Outlook

I configured two Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010, however I cant find out how to get to Inbox of the second account. Session.GetDefaultFolder() always return the first one. Even enumerating Session.Accounts, finding the right account and calling…
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How to have a VSTO Ribbon and Context Menu at the same time?

EDIT: The posters answer is correct except for it should read xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" for the include. As a side effect the ribbon and context menu defined in an XML file will not work in Office 2007. If you need…
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Debugging Outlook Add-in Desktop

I'm currently developing an Add-in using yeoman and generator-office for Outlook to save an email and its attachments to another service. Outlook Version: MS Office Professional Plus 2016 v.16.0.48.49.1000 I am able to sideload the add-in by going…
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conversationId - how to detect a conversation between multiple users

The use case: We are creating a system which analyses mail content. If we are able to categorize and archive an email based on its content, we want to automatically categorize subsequent emails in the same conversation / thread. The issue is that…
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nicely reading outlook mailitem properties

I am writing a plugin for outlook 2007 and i would like to read a property of a MailItem. In particular i'd like to know all the content-types of my attachments. Now the way i do this now is something like this: Outlook.MailItem item = OutlookItem…
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Difficulty starting VS 2010 debugger attached to Outlook to debug plugin

I'm trying to write an Outlook Addin in C# using Visual Studio 2010 and WPF and it's turning out to be difficult to debug. I would like to have VS automatically attach to OUTLOOK.EXE upon startup so that I can hit breakpoints easily. So, I went…
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Native Window: Release Handle On Close

I am currently working on a C# .NET Add-In for Microsoft Outlook. The goal of the Add-In is, to capture the search input from the Outlook Instant Search, and show in a Custom Pane my own search results. It works pretty well, and with subclassing the…
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Automatically insert email signature into Outlook Meeting Invite

I have been searching the web for a way to do this but no such luck. My goal is to save a meeting agenda template into an email signature which would be inserted into every meeting invite created by me. Looking for some clues on how to do this?
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Using Wix to Deploy an Outlook Add-In

I have a requirement to create an installer for an Outlook 2003 add-in that was created with VSTO. We currently are using Wix for our installers as they play nice with MSBuild and I need to use it to create the installer for the outlook add-in. I…
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Storing Outlook emails in a Microsoft SQL Server database

I am using c# to write an Outlook 2007 add-in to store emails in a SQL Server 2005 database. I would like to be able to store the entire .msg file in a varbinary(MAX) field. Is there a way to do this without having to use the Outlook MailItem's…
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