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    - CheckOut and CheckIn customization Thanks for your reply John, but that's not quite what I'm looking for. I need a way to make Word call my code for document storage, not just override user commands. For example, I can save a document to a temp file and then send it off to my server, but Path property of that document would still point to a temp file. I've been able to solve that problem for openning files by implementing a protocol handler, but it doesn't work for saving. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Force ContextLeave Event Thank you for your answer Cindy. I was on the wrong path, it's not a problem of TransformDocument, it's because I'm working with temporary documents which are closed and opened again. But the question is the same: How can I force the ContextLeave-Event Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Outlook and OLE attachments - olOLE Thx Sue! You prevent spending my time to search for a non-existing solution I think I'll try the .msg-way ... Jan Inge Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Document customizations created for Office 2003 r not working with 2007 documents. Your *.doc solution should work fine on a client running Word 2007 without any code or manifest modification. The client machien will need to 2007 PIAs that got installed with Office 2007, and the newer VSTO SE Runtime which you can download on MSDN here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=49612 Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Should HandsOnLab work with VSTO SE? Configuration: Windows XP Pro Visual Studio 2005 Office 2003 Professional (with Business Contact Manager installed) VSTO SE I get the following message when opening any project included with HandsOnLab or the Samples: "The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported" Expected behavior Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Hiding Multiple Rows In Excel In One Command? Thanks. This was quicker, but still VERY slow. I found a way to do it minimizing my COM interop calls. Took a while to figure out, but check it out; it's instantaneous... // // function to filter rows that do not match criteria // private void HideRows3(Excel.Range in_range, string in_filterString, string in_filterString2, string in_filterString3) { string hideRef = null; // convert to .net object to minimize com interop Object[,] values = (Object[,])in_range.Value2; // unhide all rows by default in_range.EntireRow.Hidden = false; // hide rows bool hiding = false; int startHide = 0; for (int i = 1; i <= values.GetLength(0); i++) { // if we did not find match if ((string)values[i, 1] != in_filterString || (string)values[i, 2] != in_filterString2 || (string)values[i, 3] != in_filterString3) { // if not currently hiding, set start if (!hiding) { // keep start pos startHide = i; // now hiding hiding = true; } } else { // were we hiding if (hiding) { // add to list if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(hideRef)) hideRef = "A" + startHide.ToString() + ":A" + (i-1).ToString(); else hideRef += ",A" + startHide.ToString() + ":A" + (i-1).ToString(); // no longer hiding hiding = false; } } } // add last reference if we were hiding if (hiding) { // add to list if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(hideRef)) hideRef = "A" + startHide.ToString() + ":A" + values.GetLength(0).ToString(); else hideRef += ",A" + startHide.ToString() + ":A" + values.GetLength(0).ToString(); } try { // hide all rows in one command! Excel.Range hideRange = (Excel.Range)in_range.get_Range(hideRef, System.Type.Missing); hideRange.EntireRow.Hidden = true; } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Error " + ex.Message + " hiding rows"); } } Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Can I add an Outlook addin to a pre-existing form? Is that the only way you can access the addin functionality Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - opening documents no these were just normal files that I created on Word 2007 and Excel from my own computer. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Outlook add-in does not install and work properly on non development machines Hi, I have developed an outlook Add in for outlook 2007 with the help of VSTO. It works fine in the development machine. I had created a setup package and tried installing in another machine. Installation says successful, but could not see the plugin loaded in Outlook. Can you please let me know what could be the issues Thanks in advance, Kishore. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Please help with pasting clipboard into Rich Text Field Yes definitely! This is some of the code.. // Select nodes in specified XPathNavigator. CurrentView.SelectNodes(FS1); // Get selected nodes. XPathNodeIterator selectedNodes = CurrentView.GetSelectedNodes(); this .CurrentView.ExecuteAction( ActionType .Copy); The Copy works perfectly. ExecuteAction = Executes a Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 editing command against a form's underlying XML document, based on the data selected in the view. How do I actually grab the rich text field in order to use the paste function I am using selectsinglenode to get and set the values of fields on the form but this doens't work for this problem Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Custom icons will not display on the ribbon Hi, I've used the custom UI editor to try to add an icon my a button on a new tab. The new button is added but the icon is not displayed on it. The contents of the customUI folder is: _rels\customUI.xml.rels: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > - < Relationships xmlns =" http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships " > < Relationship Type =" http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image " Target =" images/Green_Atom.png " Id =" Green_Atom " /> </ Relationships > \images\GreenAtom.png customUI.xml: - < customUI xmlns =" http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui " > - < ribbon startFromScratch =" false " > - < tabs > - < tab id =" customTab " label =" Custom Tab " > - < group id =" customGroup " label =" Custom Group " > < button id =" customButton " label =" Custom Button " imageMso =" Green_Atom " size =" large " onAction =" Callback " /> </ group > </ tab > </ tabs > </ ribbon > </ customUI > This seems correct and no error message is raised, so why is it not displayed Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Stroing additional data along with a cell Hi, The hidden column wouldn't work because we are inserting the data into where ever the user wants them to be placed. That could mean one of his existing reports as well. But, a hidden worksheet + named ranges could work. Only problem with that is we'd be dealing with tables that are of 100s or 1000s of records. But, still that can work The info we trying to put are row-specific and have to be bound to the row itself. So, the config file solution wouldn't work. Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE, Office 2007, and ... Visio for EA version? Hi Ji, First off thank you for responding. Let me clarify the most important part of my question -- my question is about whether or not VSTO 2005 SE will work if I have Office 2007 installed and VSTS 2005 Visio EA installed. VSTO 2005 Second Edition clearly states that it does not work if multiple versions of Office are installed. See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5E86CAB3-6FD6-4955-B979-E1676DB6B3CB&displaylang=en#AdditionalInfo "Make sure you have only one version of Microsoft Office installed. VSTO 2005 SE does not support configurations where two different versions of Microsoft Office products are installed side by side , and it is known to not work properly in such configurations." My development workstation is Vista and I have Office 2007 installed as well. I also want to install Visio Enterprise Architect so that I can use it to generate databases from diagrams. However, I believe that if I install Visio EA from VS.NET 2005 then I have what amounts to an Office 2003 product installed. This would mean I would have multiple versions of Office installed -- so this would probably constitute a situation that VSTO 2005 SE does not support. Could someone please verify this Thanks! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - 2 versions of Excel add-in Hi, I have an existing version of an Excel 2003 add-in, built using VSTOSE, that's working fine. I would like install a new UAT version of this add-in, alongside the current add-in. I've tried to to do this, but each time I build one version of my add-in it just overwrites/overdeploys the other version. The steps that I've taken are: 1)Copy my existing project; 2)Rename everying to a new name, including dlls, assembly name etc. But unfortunately this still doesn't work. Can anyone help Many thanks Jeremy Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Smart tags Word 2007 VSTO 2005 SE Any plans to support VSTO smart tags in app-level addins in the next release of VSTO This would be huge for us. What about other doc-level host controls -- any plans to support those w/ app-level addins Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - vsto vb.net need table in table or wrap rows? Thank you for responding Cindy. The problem is after I correct the language the page always gets reset to the msdn portal and I lose my page. Very frustrating. IE7 VSTO word Doc project, vb.net, I did mention this in the header so I dont feel to silly. Yes lets say that 3 table columns take up the entire width of the page (or in word a newspaper column), their is a fourth column of data, I would like to drop down to the next row and have that 4th column be there. I might have been making it to complicated. Now I am thinking Ill add an extra row with only 1 column but have not gotten that to work yet. Any tips would be appreciated. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Excel Addin. Hi. I have a textstring, comma separated, that represents a big database table. 256 columns and 10 000 rows approx. This string i want to open i Excel in some way. I want to use Excel as a reporting tool. I have done this from a textfile before with workbooks.opentext(filepath), but now i have a string in my Excel addin It is written in VS 2005, C#. One way of doing it is of course to save the string as a file and import it the same way, but i hoped for a better solution... Best R Kjell Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Make excel workbook readonly Thanks Ji, That certainly is a solution and I kinda figured that out while I was playing with my code. Instead of looping thru all the sheets, since I had only three sheets and was working on them at different points and modules, I password protected each of them seperately and it seems to work. I tried password protecting the whole workbook but that didn't work. Do you know why Thanks so much... bullpit Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Problem with Installer Hi ji, Thank you very much for ur reply. I followed that links also which u have mentioned. Actually My setup was giving the following errors. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1985355&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1075209&SiteID=1 Then I just installed both VSTO, PIA manually by using indivdual setup. Then I tried my setup file. Then it just copies the files but does nothing. Can you please guide me or give me one set up which is already prepared with that I can check my mistake. Thanks in Advance Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Publishing VSTO 2005 SE addin to a network location Rakesh, I've achieved what you describe but it was tricky First thing I recall is that if you publish to a network location there is an issue that if the network is unavailable when you load your application/addin, your addion is disabled. This is incredibly frustrating. What this means is that the files are not actually copied to your local machine and are run directly off the network which is not ideal for isntances where you want to work offline. Here is what I did. 1. I created a setup project as normal. (This is how you take care of registry, security policy and inital setup of manifest and files) 2. I then created my own updater class that I call from the addin_startup which checks the local manifest file against the manifest file in the publish location (compare the versions). 3. If the version is newer, I use xDirectory ( http://www.codeproject.com/cs/files/xdirectorycopy.asp ) to copy the contents of the publish directory (based upon the version of course) into the local machine directory. 4. I wrote a small application that is launched by my addin which passes details such as the process id and file that is open 5. This app then stops the running process and restarts it with the file that was open Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Converting Interoped Code to Managed Code Word version is 2007. VS is 2005. I'm using VB code. Not C#. In my project References I have; Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common2007 Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime And when I hover over the Range object I get an Intellisense message that Word.Range is not defined and I should change it to Word.XMLNode. I'm okay with changing all of those IF the new XMLNode will function the same as the Range object. You said the Range object is still in there. What reference do I need to add in order to access it Thanks. In the meantime, I've downloaded and installed the Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies redistributable package and attempted to reference Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll in my program. Nowhere is it to be found. I searched the entire C drive and still don't find it. How do I reference something that is supposed to be installed when I can't find it anywhere on the machine Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE Word 2003 addin won't load I know that the correct runtime is installed because I downloaded and installed it myself. When started with VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS=0, Word simply reports that it can't load the addin. The message goes on to say that this could be because Word can't find the file or because of security problems. If I bring up the System Info. dialog box and look at installed COM addins for Word, my addin is listed but marked as not installed, yet it shows up on the add/remove items list in control panel. This suggestion gave me another piece of the puzzle, but I must still be missing something. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Create MergeField from string Hi Toxter, As far as I know, we cannot capture the drop-event via VSTO, even in any technology using Word Object Model. So, when you drop anything on surface of Word, no matter it is text, picture or other objects, Word performs in its own way. Your objective cannot be achieved through VSTO. I am not very sure if Windows API can be competent for your job, but that is complicated and off topic in the VSTO forum. Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Office add-ins not running on clients Shouldn't the installer solve this And if not how do I make the installer solve it. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Hi Helmut, I am facing a similar situation. Can you please elaborate upon your answer Especially the " You can also use a second pst file for your folders - or public folders on exchange to separate the folders from normal folders " part. As I would like my Document Store Folder Group to be independent of any other ( i.e. start from the root itself ). Thank You in advance, any help would be appreciated. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - add-in not working through setup project Thanks Jeff. Thanks for your reply. I had created my setup project using these two below link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537173(office.11).aspx and part two is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537179(office.11).aspx . Still I am facing same problem. I am using VSTO 2005 SE. please help me. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - MS Word COM object problem Hi Utku, Thanks for your sharing the solution you find. Maybe members here will benefit from it in future! Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Shortcut Key for excel addin Hi Ji, Thanks for your reply and I have gone through the post already and I could not understand it fully as I am very new to .net environment. I have created an excel addin using VSTO SE and below given is a small bit of coding which I have done. ribbon1.xml < customUI xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui " > < ribbon > < tabs > < tab id = " CustomTab " label = " My Menu " visible = " true " > < group id = " MyGroup " label = " My Group " > < button id = " BlueUL " label = " Blue UL " size = " normal " onAction = " MyModule " /> </ group > </ tab > </ tabs > </ ribbon > </ customUI > ribbon1.vb - ribbon callback Public Sub MyModule(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl) Dim ThisWkSht As New Excel.Worksheet Dim rng As Excel.Range ThisWkSht = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveSheet rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection Select Case control.Id Case "BlueUL" With rng.Borders(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeBottom) .LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous .Weight = Excel.XlBorderWeight.xlThin .ColorIndex = 7 End With End Select End Sub Now my requirement is to assign "Ctrl + Alt + B" to the button. If you could show a sample vba procedure or some clear walk through on how to assign the shortcut key that would be great. Since I got struck with this thing for so long and the search also doesn't yield good results. Thanks in advance, Mohan Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Change Outlook email address "to" in BeforeCheckNames() A better solution would be to save the item and then use the Recipients collection to perform the necessary modifications. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Looping Through Open Word Documents I am working with Orcas and VSTO Beta 1. I created a new Word document project called TestWord that contains a custom ribbon. If a user has multiple Word documents open at any given time, how can I loop through them and determine which ones, if any, are my custom type containing the ribbon Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - Performance/Display issues with Windows Forms Thanks for your response. I don't understand why I would need to give my AddIn a parent WindowHandle - I have not seen this done in any VSTO code samples or solutions... is this something I should be doing in all my VSTO add-in forms The other part of this that I'm unclear on, is that if all the forms work pretty well for me and only hang for this one user, what is causing the Window handle to fail for this user Thanks again. kewpcg Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office
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    - PowerPoint 2007 Close Event ??? Hi, I am working on a project which requires me to create an Add-in to work with PowerPoint 2007 . Now here we dont have any event as BeforeClose in PowerPoint like in Word. I want to close PowerPoint on conditional bases from the application. I am using VS 2005, .Net 3.0, Office 2007. Can any one please show me any solution for the same.. Thanks in Advance... Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform Office

simon.bruynsteen

Hi,

I'm developing an outlook addin that allows the users to browse data from our business application.

I added some new functionalities, therefore I used formregions and winforms in Outlook.

I want to add a button to lookup a contact person and fill in the contact person in a textbox. Is it possible to use the default outlook lookup form for contact persons, as you can find it in a new mail screen

I'm using VSTO 2005 SE + VS2008 Beta 2

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards

Simon Bruynsteen

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Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform

Sue Mosher - Outlook MVP

In Outlook 2007, use the Namespace.GetSelectNamesDialog method.

Outlook 2003 has no comparable method, so you'd need either the third-party Redemption library or the Address Book wrapper ActiveX control (MSOSVABW.DLL) that comes with Outlook. (CDO 1.21 can do it, too, but triggers security prompts and is not supported in .NET languages.)

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