Beginner's questions about Outlook Add-in ?

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Khanh

hi,

Our clients needs a Microsoft Outlook add-in as follows:

Main purpose is supporting to select email address from other
database.
Add one button into the "New Mail" window of Microsoft Outlook,
click into that button to open a new form. This form will get data
from database server and show list of email address, we can choose any
item for input To, CC,or BCC, then back to the "New Mail" window.
They need that we can also append to Subject an item from list of
template. For example, template contains "Pls reply ASAP", Mail
Subject is "Register to travel Asia-tour", then result is "Register to
travel Asia-tour[Pls reply ASAP]"


Finally, my question is:
What progrmaming langugue and technique should be used ?

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
Khanh
 
Sorry, we don't want to buy third party software, we want develop by ourselve.

Eugene E. Starostin said:
Hi,

Look at www.add-in-express.com

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Khanh said:
hi,

Our clients needs a Microsoft Outlook add-in as follows:

Main purpose is supporting to select email address from other
database.
Add one button into the "New Mail" window of Microsoft Outlook,
click into that button to open a new form. This form will get data
from database server and show list of email address, we can choose any
item for input To, CC,or BCC, then back to the "New Mail" window.
They need that we can also append to Subject an item from list of
template. For example, template contains "Pls reply ASAP", Mail
Subject is "Register to travel Asia-tour", then result is "Register to
travel Asia-tour[Pls reply ASAP]"


Finally, my question is:
What progrmaming langugue and technique should be used ?

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
Khanh
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If you are supporting Outlook 2000 and later you should use an Outlook COM
addin. You will also run into the security prompts when you access email
addresses or a mail item's recipients collection to add the addresses. So
you would have to use Redemption (www.dimastr.com/redemption) a 3rd party
library, or Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi code only) or the Exchange security
form to avoid the security prompts.

I'd avoid for the most part using a managed code addin, not a very
compelling story for Outlook, and stick with a COM implementation.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/comaddins.htm for some information to get
you started and http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for information on the
Outlook object model security guard.
 
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