save Outlook E-Mail attachments from 2007

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 private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Application.NewMail +=new Outlook.ApplicationEvents_11_NewMailEventHandler(Application_NewMail);
            
            
        }
        public void Application_NewMail()
        {
             Outlook.MAPIFolder inBox = this.Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
            Outlook.Items inBoxItems = inBox.Items;
            Outlook.MailItem newEmail = null;
            inBoxItems = inBoxItems.Restrict("[Unread] = true");
            try
            {
                foreach (object collectionItem in inBoxItems)
                {
                    newEmail = collectionItem as Outlook.MailItem;
                    if (newEmail != null)
                    {
                        if (newEmail.Attachments.Count > 0)
                        {
                            for (int i = 1; i <= newEmail
                               .Attachments.Count; i++)
                            {
                                newEmail.Attachments[i].SaveAsFile
                                    (@"C:\TestFileSave\" +
                                    newEmail.Attachments[i].FileName);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                string errorInfo = (string)ex.Message
                    .Substring(0, 11);
                if (errorInfo == "Cannot save")
                {
                   System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(@"Create Folder C:\TestFileSave");
                }
            }
        }
        

Answer 1

You have not mentioned your problems statement. Are you geting any Error ? Is your event not firing ?

In C# Array/Collections index start with Zero. Make sure you’re for loop start with 0 rather than 1 as below.

 for (int i = 0; i < newEmail
             .Attachments.Count; i++)
 {
 newEmail.Attachments[i].SaveAsFile .. 

It's based on my experience that your issue will better supported at @  Outlook for Developers Forum. I would recommend you to make our question specific and post your question to the said forum.

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Lingaraj Mishra

Answer 2

i tried in that way also but attachment count is allways 0  so..........it's is not ging into the for loop

Answer 3

Are you sure your new mail got an attachment? Try posting your question to the said forum.

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Lingaraj Mishra

Answer 4

Hi Krish233,

I've tried your code. It works fine on my side. 

You can try to disable all other add-ins and then send an email with attachments to the account in Outlook, alos you can try Application.NewMailEx Event.

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Regards,
Fermin
What's life without whimsy?

Answer 5

what exactly does not work with your code? and contrary to what Lingaraj Mishra said - COM based collections start counting from 1, so this is ok.