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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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how CISCO able to integrate webex plugin for outlook mac

I am developing a plug-in for outlook mac, I have search all over Google and community and everyone told me that its not possible to make Add-in for Outlook mac because it's simply doesn't support and I admitted but I have just seen the WebEx plugin…
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Is it possible to have more than one custom tab for the office ribbon?

I can not find any documentation to verify this or any working examples I want to achieve something like this xml below, but I think this really is not possible.
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Office 2007: Programmatically control Out-Of-Office assistant?

Does anybody know how to programmatically enable/disable the actual state of the out-of-office auto-responder in Outlook 2007? Already searched the object browser in VS 2008 and found the enumeration Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBusyStatus but…
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How do I access an Outlook email attachment in C# without saving it to a new location?

I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook in C# to access a mailbox and find messages with specific file attachments. I need to interact with the attachments. Currently, I am saving the file to a new location and accessing it from there. This…
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Is there a list of IDs for the Outlook MAPI namespace?

I'm working on an Outlook add-in and I'm looking for a complete list that relates that MAPI properties to there names that is a little less vague than this. There is plenty of documentation on how to access those properties, but I'm not having much…
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Can't Debug Application-Level Add-in for Outlook

This is the first time I am using .NET to create an Application-level Add-in for Outlook. By using a tutorial I wrote down some code and it was successfully build, but I was unable to debug the code. While debugging an alert box displays…
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C# Outlook Add-In Arrays Start at 1?

I've been banging my head against the wall for 25 minutes trying to figure out why I can't access the 'first' index of an array, which I was trying to do with array[0]. I kept getting an Array Index Out of Bounds Exception. Just to see what would…
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change outlook MailItem icon

I'm developing an outlook 2010 addin that exports the emails to a specific locations when an user clicks a button from the menu. This part is not a problem, but I need also to change the MailItem icon-pictogram if the export was successful. I tried…
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Retrieve Current Email Body In Outlook

in my outlook addin I want to add a button on the Ribbon so when user click this button I want to retrieve the current selected email's body , I have this code but it retrieve only the first email from the inbox because the index is 1…
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Outlook 2007 Add-in: How to add an icon to an msoControlButton

Background: I'm developing an Outlook 2007 Add-in in VS2010 in C#. The specific thing that I'm doing is adding a menu-item to the context menu associated with an email. I do this with the following code: private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object…
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How do I make my GUID visible for a VSTO Add-in

I've tried adding the following code to the beginning of my add-in code as such: Namespace NS [Guid("211B3945-E2AE-48DD-8A9A-77ADB40EC6D5")] [ComVisible(true)] public partial class Classname { but it doesn't appear when I list the…
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Add-ins missing in "New Outlook" for Outlook for Mac users

I work on an add-in for Microsoft Outlook, and some of our Outlook for Mac users have recently reported that they are unable to view any add-ins in the ribbon if they have the "New Outlook" toggle turned on. The option "Get Add-ins" is accessible…
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C# VSTO Outlook plugin - How can I get the email address of the sender of an outgoing email using Exchange?

There are a few questions on this already, but I am facing a different issue. The solutions posted on other questions didn't work for me, I suspect the reason is that I am trying to get the senders email address of an outgoing email, rather than one…
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C# dual Outlook 2007/2010 VSTO Add-in

We need to create a VSTO add-in in C# that supports both Outlook 2007 and 2010. To start off we created 3 projects: File->New Project->Office->2007->Outlook 2007 Add-in File->New Project->Office->2010->Outlook 2010 Add-in File->New…
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How to get reading pane reference from VSTO add-in?

How do you get a reference to a Reading Pane in Outlook? And how do you add an event handler to be notified with the content of the reading pane changes? As far as I can see, Oulook doesn't consider Reading Pane as an Inspector. When…
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