Thanks for looking.
I am working on an Outlook plugin that includes a pop-up Form that loads a browser inside of it to allow the user to log in via a 3rd party auth service.
This works great when running from a debug session: I see the custom tab in the ribbon, click the "login" button, and the form pops up as a modal using .ShowDialog().
I am using Outlook 2016.
Problem
When I publish this VSTO and then install it on my machine, the plugin loads and I can see the "login" button in the custom ribbon tab, but clicking it does nothing. I have checked to be sure that the dialog isn't simply popping under the main form. If it's there--I can't find it.
Back to debug session--everything works great. I suspect a permissions issue, but I don't get any prompts or errors from Outlook.
Last, I don't know if it's related, but I sent the VSTO installer to a colleague and they get the following error when attempting to install:
System.Security.SecurityException: Customized functionality in this
application will not work because the certificate used to sign the
deployment manifest for {APP NAME REMOVED} or its location is not
trusted. Contact your administrator for further assistance.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Most probably your form is shown behind the Outlook window. You need to specify the parent window handle if you want to see the form all the time on top of Outlook windows. The Show and ShowDialog methods of the System.Windows.Forms.Form class allows to specify the parent window handle by passing an instance of the IWin32Window interface as a parameter.
First, you need a class which implements that interface:
public class WindowWrapper : System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window
{
public WindowWrapper(IntPtr handle)
{
_hwnd = handle;
}
public IntPtr Handle
{
get
{
return _hwnd;
}
}
private IntPtr _hwnd;
}
In Outlook you can cast an instance of the Explorer or Inspector class to the IOleWindow interface and get the window handle which can be used for the IWin32Window implementation.
Related
I want to program a simple Outlook add-in that opens a browser and take the user to a specific site.
I've had a look at using Yeoman, but this add-in opens a task pane where I'm just looking to take that single actions.
Is there a simple way to do this?
EDIT:
I managed to get this done, but I not have the following issue: I have a single button (via Yeoman's generator) that when clicked executes the following:
function action(event) {
const message = {
type: Office.MailboxEnums.ItemNotificationMessageType.InformationalMessage,
message: "Window opened.",
icon: "Icon.80x80",
persistent: true,
};
// Show a notification message
window.open("https://myurl.com");
Office.context.mailbox.item.notificationMessages.replaceAsync("action", message);
// Be sure to indicate when the add-in command function is complete
event.completed();
}
I get the following error in Outlook itself:
We deployed the app using the MS 365 admin center, but I'm not sure if there is something additional that I need to do in this case to run the webserver?
There is an Office.js API that will open a browser window:
Office.ui.openBrowserWindow( -- URL string here -- );
This will cause the computers default browser to open to the specified URL. You could have a button in the task pane whose handlers calls this method. Alternatively, you could have a custom button on the ribbon that calls a FunctionFile that calls this method.
If you want to display any web site to the user as a result of the button click or some action on the pane, try doing window.open('https://yoursite.com'). This should work if the domain is whitelisted in your manifest. For example:
function redirectFunction() {
window.open("https://othersite.com")
//window.location.href = "https://othersite.com";
}
I have a webview inside my application and when an external link is clicked (that in normal browser is open in a new tab), I can't then go back to my website.
It is possible when a new tab is open to have the menu closed that tab like Gmail do ?
The objective is that, whenever a link is clicked, the user would have the choice to choose which option to view the content with, e.g. Clicking a link would suggest open youtube app or google chrome. The purpose is to appear the google chrome option
Or what suggestions do you have to handle this situation ?
If I understood you correctly, you want to have the option to select how to open the web link - inside your app, or within another app's (browser) context.
If this is correct, then you can use Xamarin.Essentials: Browser functionality.
public async Task OpenBrowser(Uri uri)
{
await Browser.OpenAsync(uri, BrowserLaunchMode.SystemPreferred);
}
Here the important property is the BrowserLaunchMode flag, which you can learn more about here
Basically, you have 2 options - External & SystemPreferred.
The first one is clear, I think - it will open the link in an external browser.
The second options takes advantage of Android's Chrome Custom Tabs & for iOS - SFSafariViewController
P.S. You can also customise the PreferredToolbarColor, TitleMode, etc.
Edit: Based from your feedback in the comments, you want to control how to open href links from your website.
If I understood correctly, you want the first time that you open your site, to not have the nav bar at the top, and after that to have it. Unfortunately, this is not possible.
You can have the opposite behaviour achieved - the first time that you open a website, to have the nav bar and if the user clicks on any link, to open it externally (inside a browser). You have 2 options for this:
To do it from your website - change the a tag's target to be _blank like this;
To do it from your mobile app - create a Custom renderer for the WebView. In the Android project's renderer implementation, change the Control's WebViewClient like so:
public class CustomWebViewClient : WebViewClient
{
public override bool ShouldOverrideUrlLoading(Android.Webkit.WebView view, IWebResourceRequest request)
{
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionView, request.Url);
CrossCurrentActivity.Current.StartActivity(intent);
return true;
}
}
We are currently using MAPI to load contact information into a form.
Within a MapiSession we are creating a RDOAddressEntry "recepient" with this bit of code
using (MapiSession session = new MapiSession())
{
//open outlook contact dialog
RDOAddressEntry recipient = session.GetAddressEntryFromID(contact.EntryId);
if (recipient.Type == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("type not defined");
}
recipient.Details(handle.ToInt32());
}
Our problem seems to be that the dialog that opens with the last line of code creates two different dialogs. One for exchange contacts and another one for SMTP contacts.
In the last version of our application it was always opening the same dialog for both RDOAddressEntry-types and we did NOT change anything in our code...
Can you help me fix this issue so that both SMTP and exchange will bring the same dialogs again?
I am not sure why you were getting the same dialog for both before - the dialog is actually provided by the particular address book provider, so it will be different for the entries from different providers.
I'd like to extend my WatiN automated tests to drive a page that guards against the user accidentally leaving the page without saving changes.
The page uses the "beforeunload" technique to seek confirmation from the user:
$(window).bind('beforeunload', function (event) {
if (confirmationRequired) {
return "Sure??";
}
});
My WatIn test is driving the page using IE. I cannot find a way to get WatIn to attach to the popup dialog so I can control it from my test.
All the following have failed (where the hard-coded strings refer to strings that I can see on the popup):
Browser.AttachTo<IE>(Find.ByTitle("Windows Internet Explorer");
browser.HtmlDialog(Find.FindByTitle("Windows Internet Explorer));
browser.HtmlDialog(Find.FindByTitle("Are you sure you want to leave this page?));
browser.HtmlDialog(Find.FindFirst());
Thanks!
You'll need to create and add the dialog handler.
Example Go to example site, click link, click leave page on confirmation dialog:
IE browser = new IE();
browser.GoTo("http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/onbeforeunload.htm");
WatiN.Core.DialogHandlers.ReturnDialogHandlerIe9 myHandler = new WatiN.Core.DialogHandlers.ReturnDialogHandlerIe9();
browser.AddDialogHandler(myHandler);
browser.Link(Find.ByUrl("http://www.microsoft.com")).ClickNoWait();
myHandler.WaitUntilExists();
myHandler.OKButton.Click();
browser.RemoveDialogHandler(myHandler);
The above is working on WatiN2.1, IE9, Win7. If using IE8 or before, you will likely need to use the ReturnDialogHandler object instead of the Ie9 specific handler
I was getting fed up with typing this.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri(page.xaml, UriKind.Relative));, every time I need to navigate to a different page in my app.
So I've created a custom BasePage with a virtual to help with Navigating around my app.
The problem I have is in VS2010, if I have the source and design view open, the design just shows the windows phone background and I get some blue wiggly lines right from the top to the bottom of my xaml and messages along the lines of x isn't supported. This happens on any page that I have set up to Inherit from my custom BasePage.
However, if I run the application on my Windows Phone or in the Emmulator it will work.
Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try to keep my Design view working whilst apply my custom base, or if I have missed something off?
A slightly cut down version of my BasePage is:
public class BasePage : PhoneApplicationPage
{
public virtual void NavigateTo(string pageName, params Tuple<string,string>[] queryString)
{
// Code to perform this.NavigationService.Navigate
}
}
EDIT 2011-08-16
Part of this base page overrides the PhoneApplicationPage's OnNavigatedTo method, in which I perform a security check to see if:
security has been enabled
User is logged in
If the security is enabled but the user is not logged in, they are immediately redirected to a Login Page.
I found this useful as I don't then have to add any code to existing or new pages to handle this, so long as they derive from the BasePage.
I wouldn't recommend using a BasePage for this. Instead, simply add your NavigateTo method in the App.xaml.cs file, as a static method.
public static void NavigateTo(string pageName, params Tuple<string,string>[] queryString)
{
// Code to perform this.NavigationService.Navigate
}
Also, remember to wrap the call to .Navigate in Dispatcher.BeginInvoke so all transition effects are properly executed.
And as a bonus tip: Don't use the designer in Visual Studio. Instead, set the 'default editor' for XAML files to be the "Source Code" editor, so the designer is never opened. This makes Visual Studio much more stable.
If you want a designer, you should get Microsoft Expression (Blend)