Toolbar button to process current mailitem

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:13:05 Z

I am new to creating ol2003 add-in using vb2008. Is there a code example of how to set a toolbar button in OL that when pressed will access the currently highlighted mail item for processing?

Many Thanks

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Toolbar button to process current mailitem

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:32:33 Z

Hello,

Please refer to this link for a full code sample of add button in Outlook Explorer:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms268864.aspx

In button click event use code to access the current selected mail item:

Application.ActiveExplorer().Selection[1] as Outlook.MailItem;

For more inforamtion about Selection object please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219970.aspx

Thanks

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