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    - Please help with pasting clipboard into Rich Text Field Hi Emma Unfortunately, your question is also off-topic here, as the VSTO forum is targeted more at the VSTO technology than "how-to-use Office" topics. InfoPath is supported in the newsgroup interface , try addressing your question there. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? 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 Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Stroing additional data along with a cell I've read that NamedRange objects are Host controls, that are only available in document-level customizations. I have an application-level customization and I can't add a NamedRange..... If I have my WorkSheet object, is it possible to add a NamedRange object Else how can I use to store my additional data for some cells Thanks Criss Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE, Office 2007, and ... Visio for EA version? Ok... I am setting up a new Vista x64 workstation for development. I am going to install VSTO 2005 SE which wants me to have just one version of office installed. That is going to be Office 2007. However, I also want to install and use Visio for Enterprise Architects off of the Visual Studio Team System 2005 Developer Edition DVD... I assume that is going to be Visio 11 (Office 2003). That means I will have 2 versions of Office installed, which VSTO 2005 Second Edition says it will not support... So.... my question is, what Visio SHOULD I install Should install Visio 2007 (assuming it exists), and if I do, what Enterprise Architect features will I be missing (or at least, what features won't I have -- I can't guarantee I will actually *miss* them). Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? 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 Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Smart tags Word 2007 VSTO 2005 SE Hi, I'm having a problem with smart tags in Word 2007. I just can't find how to add them. On the microsoft site their are lots of walkthroughs for VSTO 2005. But in the VSTO 2005 SE, you can't use me.VSTOSmartTags anymore Thanks in advance Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - vsto vb.net need table in table or wrap rows? I am building a table and am getting data for the table from sqlserver. The columns that are being returned need to be wrapped into a second row. I was thinking of the folloing logic. Create table 1, loop through data, create table with 2 rows, fill table 2 with data for the record, next. Is this the best approach or is their a method that would wrap the columns into the next column with out needint a table in a table. In either case can you point out an example of how to do this. Also a side note, when I search MSDN and get results like this they are in french, itialian, espanol, why will it not stay on US-EN My profile says USA. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform 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 Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Excel Addin. Hi. Thank you. This is for sure much faster. But I must admit that i hoped for an even faster solution. About 4 times slower than Sql management studio to load data. Any more tips on how to speed it up I have also disabled graphics updating. I took imported the data directly to the recordset as you suggested. like this: this.Application.ScreenUpdating = false; this.Application.DisplayAlerts = false; Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Make excel workbook readonly I know that, but as mentioned in the FAQ, if you use Excel, protecting is the best way and also the most appropriate way for your scenario. Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Problem with Installer Hi ji, I could install PIA and VSTOR through installer but I am getting small exception. "cannot set the security policy.The specified solution code group name is not valid" I copied the part of code setsecurity.cs where the exception is coming. Code Snippet string allUsersString = this.Context.Parameters["allUsers"]; string solutionCodeGroupName = this.Context.Parameters["ExcelAddin3"]; string solutionCodeGroupDescription = this.Context.Parameters["solutionCodeGroupDescription"]; string targetDir = this.Context.Parameters["targetDir"]; string assemblyName = this.Context.Parameters["assemblyName"]; string assemblyCodeGroupName = this.Context.Parameters["assemblyCodeGroupName"]; string assemblyCodeGroupDescription = this.Context.Parameters["assemblyCodeGroupDescription"]; // Note that a code group with solutionCodeGroupName name is created in the // Install method and removed in the Rollback and Uninstall methods. // The solutionCodeGroupName must be a unique name to ensure that the // correct code group is removed during Rollback and Uninstall. if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(solutionCodeGroupName)) throw new InstallException("Cannot set the security policy. The specified solution code group name is not valid."); Can you please guide me Thanks in Advance. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Publishing VSTO 2005 SE addin to a network location Hi Denis, I have tried the approach you have mentioned here, but it does not allow me to copy the dll's to the installed directory. It says access/permission denied! Did you face a similar kind of issue This is a add-in for Outllok and i am running a different console application for updating the dlls of the add-in Now, when I try to do a File.Copy to the installed folder, it throws the exception. I had installed the add-in using setup initially. I kill the outlook process programatically before doing the File.Copy. I checked to see the permissions of the file/folder and they are not "read-only". Also, I am currently comaparing the dll files directly using the object of Assembly class. How do I compare the ".manifest" file. Is there a class in .net framework that does it Any help on this would be of great help. Thanks in advance! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Converting Interoped Code to Managed Code You won't be able to get away from COM references, as the Office apps are still strictly COM (as is Windows). You will, at the very least, have COM references to Word and to Office. These should work through the 2007 PIAs that ought to be in the GAC. You access them through Add References, the COM tab, as I described before. Don't try to link things in in any other way. Referencing the TLB files directly will generate a set of IAs that wouldn't be optimized by Microsoft, wouldn't work well with VSTO and would have to be redistributed as part of your application - in the application folder, not in the GAC. You do not want to do that. As to the error message: if you start Word are you able to record a macro Open the VBA editor Is VBA installed on the machine and are macros in trusted locations able to run Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE Word 2003 addin won't load Word has a mechanism to DISABLE add-ins that cause it to encounter "serious errors" when running. The symptoms you've presented indicate that your add-in might have been disabled. TRY: Click Help menu. Click About Microsoft Office Word. Click Disabled Items Select the add-in you want to enable and click Enable. Recompile and re-run your solution. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Create MergeField from string Hello dunean, You said: "Drop the text **Address_Line_1** (something unique) and then search for it in ActiveDocument." Yes, but how can I know that something is dropped to Document Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Office add-ins not running on clients Hi I've recently developed a office add-in for powerpoint but the add-in doesn't load, I'm using the installer included in the package and the client does have vstor and interop assemblies installed. If I make an application on the client using visual studio and making a debug or release, it runs fine. Thanks // Lasse Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - add-in not working through setup project Hi all, I have the following problem: I've made an PowerPoint managed add-in using C#, VS 2005 , VSTO SE and PowerPoint 2003. The problem is that when click F5 on VS the add-in strarts, installs commandbars, buttons etc. and works fine. If stop debug mode of VS and strat PowerPoint manually the add-in still works, BUT if after it start the Setup and install the add-in via the standart setup project which VS generates the add-in no more works. I've made it a strong name, use RegAsm.exe with parameter /codebase , everything as is described everywhere. Also there is oneother thing: When I install the add-in with the Installer it registers successfuly. strat PowerPoint manually the add-in not works Thank you in advance Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - MS Word COM object problem hi, i used the Com object of (MS Office word 11) i added as a reference changed the web config and dcomcnfg i did everything and i used it. but suddenly my application started not to work. Can anybody help me about this issue i think the changes that i have made could affect the application start up. My application start after i get login it locks. thanks so much utku selamoglu Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Shortcut Key for excel addin Hi Mohan, Yesterday, I thought that Ctrl+Alt cannot be assigned to the Macro, because Excel UI only let us to set Ctrl or Ctrl+Shirt combination key. But after some testing, it seems we can assign other kinds of combination key via VBA codes as your first post described: Application.OnKey All we need to do is modify the step 9: Step 9: In Microsoft Visual Basic IDE, double click ThisWorkbook in the project window. Above the editor, there are two dropdown list controls. Choose Workbook in first one, and Open in Second one. Then a Sub named Workbook_Open will be generated by default for us. In that procedure, we can use Application.OnKey to register our combination keys. Codes: Code Block Private Sub Workbook_Open() Application.OnKey "^%b", " CallBuleUl " End Sub Then, perform Step 10 and go ahead as usual. Every time you Open Excel, Book1.xlam will be loaded and register ��Ctrl+Alt+b�� to be the shortcut key of procedure CallBlueUl. As to your second question, yes, you should deploy the Book1.xlam Add-In along with the solution. And the last one, based on my knowledge and research, this is the only way I can think out to assign the shortcut key to buttons created via Ribbon customization. Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Change Outlook email address "to" in BeforeCheckNames() Hi all, I'm developing an MS Outlook Add-in with VSTO (VB.NET). I've to change an email address before sending it, but here is a problem that the field "to" is ReadOnly. So I've to turn off the email address verification or change that field in BeforeCheckNames() somehow. Any ideas Best Regards Alexander Olekhnovich Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? 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 Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Performance/Display issues with Windows Forms Hi, maybe it's a problem with the graphics driver - not a softwareproblem. Greets, Helmut. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? 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 Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Outlook Explorer Close event Hello, can you post how your startup code looks like However, in my sample I will get the close event. I will also try to write a small sample from scratch. "Never get a close event" -> When you have a reference to your COM object somewhere in your code, you won't get the close event, because the explorer doesn't close because the COM ref counter says it's still in use and therefore you won't get the close event. And this is why there is a tool like vsto - it makes sure that when the AddIn is unloaded, it makes sure that all references to COM objects are released to prevent memoryleaks and application remaining in memory. So - I will give it a try. Greets, Helmut Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE I installed MS Office 2007 including PIA 2007 Visual Studio 2005 VSTO 2005 SE on my computer. When i create Outlook Addin project in Visual Studio 2005 i get the following message. "Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP1 or newer is not installed on this computer. You must install a version of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 that supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System projects." Would i still have to install MS Office 2003 in order to start my outlook 2007 add-in development Thanks & Regards Danish Tehseen Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Giving Cell Reference for String Hi, in my application i'm using string to be enter in a textbox. I've to use the cell reference for that textbox too. The scenario as follows, There will be a text in any one of the cell in sheet. The user will open a form and there is a text box.In next to that i've to give the cell reference icon, when the user clicks the icon, it should open a separate window and cell reference should appear in the wndow. Once user hits enter, the cell nmber alone should display in the text box. Let me get solution for the above. The function need is same as in the norma Excel -->Insert-->Formula. I need the code for this. If the solution reaches me in short,it ll be more helpful. Thanks Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member ... Hi, I'm currently at loss with this current problem. This is the scenario: I have several c# libraries (all strongly named) in my solution. This solution processes data and serialised the result into a MS SQL Server database. From my VSTO project (using VB.NET) I tried to access the database and deserialise the result back into my object. Everything works until the moment of deserialisation where I get the SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member ... I have a test project that accesses the database and deserialise my object and it is working perfectly fine, so I'm certain that the serialisation/deserialisation code is working, but just not within VSTO framework. Any ideas Cheers, Victor Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Outlook.AppointmentItem.Conflicts - Problem I wasn't asking what results you get by applying the filter, but was asking for a typical value of the filter string itself. I would definitely test without GlobalAppointmentID. You can always check the results you get for a match. What would be the point of adding UserProperty Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Addin fails to load a DLL which had its version updated. HI Ji, Thank you very much for your help. But, this is really weird. This does not happen in any other test project I create either. Only on the actual product (where it really matters ) Also there are other projects in the solution that work correctly when their versions are incremented. Maybe there's something in the VSTO project (specific to the project itself) that's holding on to this old reference. Here's the interesting bit: the class library has a webservice proxy class which is being used by the VSTO project. I think this is where the problem is. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Reading Excel From C# If you don't want to use the Excel COM objects, you can use OleDb. It takes a little setup in your Excel document. Basically, you need to define "named objects" in Excel that are synonymous to tables in a database. The first row of the named object are the column headers. To set up a named object, first select the range of cells (your "table," with the first row being the column headers), then go to menu Insert->Names->Define. Name your object and press "Add." Now you have an object which can be read by ADO.NET. Now for the C# (this example assumes I have an Excel file at C:\Book1.xls and a named object in this workbook called "MyObject"): using System.Data; using System.Data.OleDb; ... OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Book1.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0"); OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from MyObject", con); DataTable dt = new DataTable(); da.Fill(dt); You can use SQL to query the data in your named object. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Hi, it seems that this issue has been the topic of many threads (e.g. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=576370&SiteID=1 ). However, I couldn't find any hint on how to solve this problem. How to reproduce: 1. Put a "MessageBox.Show()" or a "File.WriteAllText()" in the startup event handler method. 2. Run any application that starts Outlook in the background. The message or the file won't show up. However, the addin's LoadBehavior is set to two. 3. Fire up Outlook (UI) and check the addin state (Tools > Options > Other ...). It's not loaded due to some error. 4. Close Outlook (UI) and close the application that initially started Outlook in the background. The process "outlook.exe" won't shut down and has to be killed manually. Conclusion: The addin loader seems to cause the error when Outlook is launched with no UI because the addin code never seems to get called. Moreover, it seems to hold some resources that prevents "outlook.exe" from being terminated. Question: Could the conclusion be correct If not, is there any reasonable explanation for this behavior Is there a workaround or a fix for it Please let me know! Current Setup: Windows XP SP2 Outlook 2003 VSTO 2005 SE Many thanks! Florian Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office
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    - Can't get most basic VSTO 2005 SE Outlook Add-In to load Hi Pete, As long as you are running the fuslogvw that matches the version of the runtime being used (i.e. you aren't running the x64 version for example), the lack of any entries would suggest that we were never able to create the AppDomain. That seems pretty suspicious. I wonder if the NDP is loading at all Try setting COMPlus_LoadLogDir=c:\shimlogs in your environment (make sure you create c:\shimlogs) and then try loading your Outlook add-in again. Then go to your shimlogs directory and check for the presence of a logfile. The logfile should tell you what version of the runtime was loaded and where it found it. Let me know what it says; perhaps that will give us a hint as to what is going on. Geoff Darst Microsoft VSTO Team Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Office

David Swain

I am looking for how to implement the following:

Modify Outlook UI (VSTO, I assume), so the Mailbox view, the navigation pane displays a list of folders, which are not mail folders. They would be folders which represent folders say on our document storage server.

The user should be able to "move" items from say their inbox folder, DRAG AND DROP onto these custom folders mentioned above, then somehow implement code to copy the mail message to the other server.

The requirements are asking to have these custom folders, hopefully inside the Outlook Navigation pane (or at least on left nav ).

My question is what customization concept should I use

My first research (reading only) suggests the usage of a custom task pane, maybe with a tree control. But not sure if I can drag and drop and not sure if I can get the custom task pane to appear in left nav.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what?

X4U

Hi David,

you can use simple mailfolders also and register for the folder.items.add event.

Then use your code to copy the dropped item to your documentstorage.

There are also events for before item cut / drop as I know.

You can also use a second pst file for your folders - or public folders on exchange to separate the folders from normal folders.

Hope this helps,

greets, Helmut

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what?

Hiren

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.