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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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Showing the in-mail add-in bar in Outlook

Feel kinda silly for having to ask, but anyway... I seem to be missing the add-in toolbar shown inside of an e-mail which for instance contains the button to watch an address in Bing maps. The entire bar is missing. I tried finding an option to view…
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All href attribute values has been overwritten in office apps

When i publish office 365 outlook add-in(with office.js) all href values has been overwritten to app source url + token data. but previously there was no such a issue. is there any reason for that ? Ex:-
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New Outlook API (2015) mail add-in send event

Does the new Microsoft Outlook API, which enables development of Outlook addins for cross platform, have the ability to trigger an event off the user clicking the send button? I currently have an Outlook VSTO addin that uses the Application.ItemSend…
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VSTOInstaller.exe error 0x8007007F The procedure entry point GetFileVersionInfoExW could not be located in the dynamic link library VERSION.dll

I've got VSTO project for Outlook, developed in VS 2012. When I install it under Windows XP, where Visual Studio 2010 or later version is installed, I've got no problems. When I install it by clicking .vsto file under Windows XP where no Visual…
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How to Update Icon for Office 365 Mail Add-in

I'm developing an Office 365 Mail Add-in in Napa and want to set the app icon. There is a manifest XML file that can include an IconUrl element, but the Napa platform doesn't provide an avenue for uploading my manifest. Is there a way to set the…
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Get previous MailItem when reply on outlook

We are developer an outlook plugin. We provide an button work as alternative of default Send button. We need save all MailItem replied by our button to a specific category. When user reply an email (in new inspector), how can I get the main MailItem…
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Create a click on Contact to call MS Outlook 2010 Add-In with MS Visual Studio 2013

I would like implement outlook 2010 Add-In that will help to call to a outlook contact by my local application. Scenario: Need a "call to dial" application that help to call a number of outlook contact. When click on outlook contact, then Add-In…
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Ribbon is not enabling in outlook

I am developing an outlook add-in application and I added a ribbon.xml file in my project and if I run the project my ribbon control is not enabling in my outlook. Rather I add the ribbon visual designer and changed the ribbon type…
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Disable outlook ribbon button if one or more mails selected

I am developing an outlook add-in and I added a ribbon using visual designer with some controls like dropdown and submit button and textbox etc., On clicking the submit button I am selecting the selected mail subject and passing to service, If more…
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Open a shared calendar that is not a Default Calendar in Outlook 2013

I know this question has been sort of asked, but I have a specific issue which I haven't found the answer for. I am trying to open a shared calendar from another user and his/her calendar is NOT their default calendar. I have tried the following: …
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Outlook Addin - Hide Help on Hover

I've created a custom add in for Outlook 2010. When I hover over the button, there's a help section with a cog image that says Press F1 for Add-in Help. I would like to remove this so it's not visible when the user hovers over the button but can't…
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How to add blocked file types as attachments in an outlook mail item?

I am trying to extract attachments from a mail and attach those files to another mail Item. Everything works fine but if I try to add an attachment wich has a blocked extension, the attachment won't get added to the mail item. Following is what I…
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Outlook 2013: Programmaticaly reply to emails with HTML signature

My Outlook signature contains an image. When replying to plain-text emails, Outlook creates a plain-text email where the image in the signature is not included. Instead of changing the format to HTML and afterwards inserting the signature once again…
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Formatting text using word.interop in outlook 2013 add-in

i'm trying to format text that i'm inserting at the beginning of a new email when a user presses a button in the ribbon add-in the code is simple in that it first checks if the type of text was previously inserted, removes it if it was, and then…
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How to get the SMTP header of an email with an outlook add in?

I'd like to get the SMTP header of the selected email in outlook. I looked all over the API, but I can't find how to do this using the Office API : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142185.aspx I also tried looking what's available…
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