Missing member in Folders Object in Outlook NameSpace

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to read items from a public folder. And below is the code I was trying to use (as found on msdn)

Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.NameSpace outlookNameSpace = outlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Outlook.Folders folders = outlookNameSpace.Folders;
Outlook.MAPIFolder publicFolder = folder.Item("Public Folders")

However intellisence doesn't recognize the 'Item' member of the 'Folders' Object and if i Type it anyway it gives an error. It's as if my object model is incomplete. I haven't found any reference to this problem anywhere online...

Here's a screenshot of what I see.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Dries

Answer 1

In C# that would be folder["Public Folders"].

 

A better way to get a public folders reference would be to use NameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olPublicFoldersAllPublicFolders). That will return a folder reference to All Public Folders.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP-Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007

"DriesDB" <=?utf-8?B?RHJpZXNEQg==?=> wrote in message news:db217859-307f-4144-99ef-7edc3ba25d3b...

Hello,

I'm trying to read items from a public folder. And below is the code I was trying to use (as found on msdn)

Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.NameSpace outlookNameSpace = outlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Outlook.Folders folders = outlookNameSpace.Folders;
Outlook.MAPIFolder publicFolder = folder.Item("Public Folders")

However intellisence doesn't recognize the 'Item' member of the 'Folders' Object and if i Type it anyway it gives an error. It's as if my object model is incomplete. I haven't found any reference to this problem anywhere online...

Here's a screenshot of what I see.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Dries

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Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook

Answer 2

Dear Ken,

Thank you so much, that did the trick. And I used your second recommendation as well.

I don't know if you have any influence over it, but maybe the difference in syntax for c# should be more clearly marked on the relevant msdn pages?

Thanks again,

Best regards,

Dries

Answer 3

Sorry, I don't have any contacts at dev division's content group, only with the Outlook content group. If the article allows commenting make a comment there about the need for more clarity about language specific syntax.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP-Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007

"DriesDB" <=?utf-8?B?RHJpZXNEQg==?=> wrote in message news:dd4360e4-24e9-42f3-894e-ef7734c2aa9e...

Dear Ken,

Thank you so much, that did the trick. And I used your second recommendation as well.

I don't know if you have any influence over it, but maybe the difference in syntax for c# should be more clearly marked on the relevant msdn pages?

Thanks again,

Best regards,

Dries

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Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook