I'm wondering if I can use outlook express to create .MSG files using Visual Studio Express
When you say "MSG" files, do you mean the Outlook MSG format or the Firefox MSG format?
Either way, it is doubtful. IIRC, OE was written in C, so it's not like you can set any references to any dlls.
Sorry,
Dave
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I am developing an Office Add-in using Visual Studio. However, I want to rename some files, delete others, and upload a file. Visual studio allows me to use HTML and JavaScript. However, neither of these allows me to access or manipulate the files on the client PC.
I could do this easily in the old VBA add-in development methodology, but I am new to the new "progressive web App" technique. I would appreciate an suggestions about how to access and manipulate client files in an Office Add-In developed with Visual Studio.
Thank You.
You cannot access the local file system (except for cookies) from an Office Web Add-in for the same reason that you cannot from a web application. It would be a security risk.
I am new in Office add-in development and little bit confused about creation JS plug-ins for Outlook. Actually we can create one add-in which will be available on all platforms: Outlook on Mac/PC, Outlook.com and Outlook 365.
But what about tools for it? According Outlook development documentation, we can use Yeoman generator for creating Office add-ins. However in my VisualStudio Community 2015 is type of project like "Web add-in", where I can chose Outlook add-in. So is there some difference between Yeoman generator and VisualStudio Web add-in projects?
Visual Studio is the main tool for creating Outlook plugins. You can also use Visual Studio Code for developing web-based solutions.
Office add-in is nothing else as "manifest.xml" file + your web application (HTML + JS). Web application is what your VS Code is help you to create. The manifest part is something which you able to write yourself, coy it from an example or use YO Generator to produce it for you. More on how to build office add-ins: Office Add-ins with VS Code and how to use generator: Yo Code - Extension Generator
To answer your question "is there some difference between Yeoman generator and VisualStudio Web add-in projects?": There is no fundamental difference. First choose whether to develop your Outlook Web Add-in with VS or with some non-VS tool. If you use VS, then use the project templates in VS. If you use any other development tool, use the yeoman-generated templates.
Occasionally, templates can get out-of-date. For example, recommended practices may change, or the manifest XML schema may be expanded. As a general rule, the yeoman-generated templates are updated more frequently than the ones generated in VS. For this reason, there may be small differences in the templates (besides the differences that are inherent to the differences in the tools).
In Visual Studio 2010, is it possible to display a start/welcome page when opening a solution file?
I'd like to have some way to show build information to new developers joining the team.
Have you already considered writing your own extension for Visual Studio?
Soma Somasegar has pointed out where to start in his blog here.
You will need to install the Visual Studio SDK (online documentation here) from samples at MSDN.
I have not done this myself yet, but I know that you can create tool windows that already load with Visual Studio. You can request a notification when a solution is loaded and then execute your own custom code.
(I just read about the notfications yesterday in Rico Mariani's blog).
Should be possible. :-)
I have installed VS 2010 in order to office programing (an extension for outlook )
In sample i find ADX Com Add-in under Extensibility New Project->other project types->Extensibility->ADX Com Add-in.but For me it is not available.
What should i do to enable this?
should i install another package or some thing like this to have this item in my new project menu .
does it refer to my vs version or the way that i have instaled it or something else .i have searched all the net but unfortunately i have found nothing useful.
what should i do to have this par tain my VS2010?
Any help would be appreciated.
ADX Com Add-in is not a Standard Microsoft modele project. You need to go on the editor web site, download and PAY around 250$ to use this modele.
Can someone give me a quick explanation of when I would use Visual Studio 2008 Outlook 2007 Ad-In project type? and how would that compare to developing a bunch of outlook macros directly in outlook?
Basically, I want to have some sort of application read email (with attachments) from a pop3 email box, do some filtering/editing/validation of the subject/sender/content and then if certain conditions are met, save the attachments to a local file, and then add an entry into an SQL server database table (i.e. date/sender/subject/message).
Seems there are at least 10 different ways to do this....so between an outlook macro and a VS Office Project, how do I pick?
I am not clear, if I create this solution as a Visual Studio outlook add-in, where does it run? Is it loaded into outlook, does it run as a separate process and communicates back and forth with outlook? if outlook is not running, does it start it?
An Outlook Add-on is a compiled component that uses the Outlook API to perform the tasks you need. A macro/VB script is an interpreted script that actually uses the same API. The add-on approach is better if you want to deploy your functionality.
When you work on an Outlook add-on in Visual Studio, you'll be creating a .NET component, which integrates into the Outlook application, which is written in C++ so uses COM. You'll have to be careful about managed/unmanaged types and releasing objects you retrieve from Outlook.
I have recently completed just such a tool, but I chose to use Add-in Express (http://www.add-in-express.com/). These guys provide a layer of abstraction over the [challenging] Outlook API and also provide some excellent support if you're stuck.
In my case, with Add-in Express, I "run" by setting Outlook as the application command to run, in the Project properties. Add-in Express sorts out the installation of the add-on within Outlook. So when I press "Run", Outlook starts and my add-in is displayed, which may be debugged in the normal fashion. I'm not sure how VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) works in this respect - or at least, I can't remember.
This is an example of an outlook add-in..
Personally, I don't see macros distributable.