Outlook 2003 COM Addin

[Chris H]

I'm trying to build an Outlook 2003 COM Add-In using Visual Basic 6.0. I can't find any tutorials online for 2003. I've found plenty for 2000 though. I tried using a 2000 example exactly as I found it, but I get a type mismatch error when Outlook loads.

Also, the reason I'm building the add in, is so that I can drag and drop emails into my Visual Basic program without getting the Security warning window. I've read that using a COM add in allows you to bypass the security warning. Is it even possible to pass the email item from my COM add in, to my Visual basic program? How would you reference the COM add in from within a VB program?

[RobDog888]

Here is a good Outlook 2003 COM Add-In example at MS.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

[Chris H]

Here is a good Outlook 2003 COM Add-In example at MS.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

Thanks Rob.

Can you answer a question for me? I see using the COM Object from within Outlook I can get full access to mail items, etc.

Is there any way to interface with this COM object from a Visual Basic program that is running outside of Outlook?

[RobDog888]

Yes, you can access Add-In from VB6.

Option Explicit
'Add a reference to MS Outlook xx.0 Object Library
'Add a reference to MS Office xx.0 Object Library
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim oCOM As Office.COMAddIn
    Set oCOM = Outlook.COMAddIns.Item("MyAdd-In")
    MsgBox oCOM.Description
    Set oCOM = Nothing
End Sub

[Chris H]

Okay, one more question. Is it possible to call a function within my COM addin from an external program? If it is possible I can't figure out the syntax in my addin to create a function.

I tried making a Public Function but my external app just says that the ActiveX control can't create an instance.