How to get stringbuilder to assign values to custom textboxes on a New e-mail window

I use the following code to assign values to already defined fileds

Dim theStringBuilder As New Text.StringBuilder() ' String of characters

theStringBuilder.Append(mailto:MYWORKPLACE@DOMAIN)

theStringBuilder.Append("&subject=PhoneCall")

theStringBuilder.Append("&body=my body message")

However, when I want to assign a value to one of my Custom fields like Caller which is just a textbox I do not see any values assigned. Could someone tell me how to do this Thanks.

Can you explain what you are attempting to do in a little more detail

When you say "I use the following code to assign values to already defined fileds" I am not sure what you are talking about. the code you provide assigns some text to a variable. Do you then want to assign the variable to form fields or specifically a textbox

TextBox1.Text = theStringBuilder.ToString()

If this is not what you are looking for then I think more explaination is needed.

The textboxes are on an Outlook 2007 new e-mail form. The default boxes are Subject, cc, Body, things like that. I additionally added some more textboxes to this form and named them (names like Caller, Surname,Building, etc, etc). Just like my code assigns the text value 'PhoneCall' to the subject box and displays the value in the subject box when the new mail message form loads, I want to assign a values to my custom boxes. For instance, I have a box called 'Caller' and I want to assign a text value to it and have it displayed in this box. I am doing this using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2005.

Is it possible to use stringbuilder in this case Or do I need to use another method

Rudolph Scott wrote:

The textboxes are on an Outlook 2007 new e-mail form. The default boxes are Subject, cc, Body, things like that. I additionally added some more textboxes to this form and named them (names like Caller, Surname,Building, etc, etc). Just like my code assigns the text value 'PhoneCall' to the subject box and displays the value in the subject box when the new mail message form loads, I want to assign a values to my custom boxes. For instance, I have a box called 'Caller' and I want to assign a text value to it and have it displayed in this box. I am doing this using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2005. Is it possible to use stringbuilder in this case Or do I need to use another method

Thanks for your reply Martin. I basically need to put the approriate values to my custom text boxes before the e-mail is sent, not when I receive the e-mail. The sample code you sent me didn't show me how to specify a value to a textbox. Could you send me an example which does if you have one Thanks in advance.

Please assign the approriate values to your custom TextBoxes in Form1_Load event.

Is this what you want

Kind of. Mt Textboxes are not the default ones like 'subject'. My ones have different names like 'Caller', etc. I have tried to use the following line in my Visual Studio code;

theStringBuilder.Append("&Caller.Text=Rudolph");

but nothing appears in the box! I don't have a form load as such. My Visual Studio code opens Outlook 2007 then I choose a menu item from the 'Tools' menu whcih opens a new E-mail form. This is when I want the data to go into my custom textboxes. Values seem to go in for the 'mailto' and subject and body textboxes, but none of the other fields I have.

Any more suggestions

Hi Rudolph,

The idea is: you need to create/add custom properties (specified by Name and Type) to e-mail messages and extract relevant property value into custom TextBox control.

To open new email window in Outlook, usually we use the following code.

Sample: Open Default mail client in .NET

As you can see, such properties as Subject, Cc, Bcc, Body, Attach are built-in.

By default, only properties that are already created in the default mail delivery store are preserved for incoming e-mail messages.

KB article: Changes to custom properties in Outlook

Add custom fields programmatically

Various APIs can be used to programmatically add custom fields to items. To do this, use the UserProperties.Add method in the Outlook object library ("Outlook.Application"). The following code illustrates this best practice.

Set myProp = myItem.UserProperties.Add("MyPropName", olText)

Please check these documents:

Best Practices for Getting and Setting Properties

Creating a Property

Setting the Value of a Property

Getting the Value of a Property

It's likely to get better answer at VSTO forum.

MSDN Forums Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office

Questions on using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System to create managed code solutions in Excel 2003, Word 2003, InfoPath 2003, & Outlook 2003

Best regards,

Martin

I have looked at this. The problem is that I need to get the code to work in VB and all the examples I have seen are for VBA! It's a pity stringbuilder can't be used to set the values in VB as this would suit me fine. Do you know of a way to get VBA code to work within a Visual Studio VB environment Thanks in advance.