Interestingly, using Outlook Spy, it does not see the UserProperties either
on the contact item, when it is in the folder ( selected ) but DOES
when the item is open in the Form Region ( Outllook 2007 )

Looking at the item useing Outlook Spy's IMessage view, all the properties
are there.

Very Odd...

Any Ideas?




"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Hi All

I've got the following strange problem. Language == C++

I've added custom properties to the containg outlook contact folder and
create the contact item using replacement form regions. Within
the form regions all the custom values are saved and redisplayed every
time you open and close the contact item.

BUT, if I grab the items collection for the folder and access each contact
item, the UserProperties items are "empty". ie: have no value and
a the count for the collection is 0

ie:
_ItemsPtr spItems = NULL;
MAPIFolderPtr spFdr = GetListingsFolder(m_spApp);
if(spFdr){
spItems = spFdr-Items;
}


if(spItems){
_ContactItemPtr spContact;
for(int i=1; i=spItems-Count; i++){
spContact = spItems-Item(i);

UserPropertiesPtr spProps = spContact-UserProperties;
int ic = spProps-Count;

ie:
UserPropertyPtr spProp = spContact-UserProperties-Item("RE MY
Value");
if(spProp ==NULL){
Barf.... Allways...
}

Strangly, I can access most of the custom properties using the
PropertyAccessor:

ie:
PropertyAccessor-GetProperty(http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/{00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/RE%20MY%20Value);

But NOT if the custom property is a Currancy value. In the case of
currancy values, I can access them if I have just resaved them using the
form region, but not if Outlook
has been shut down and restarted. :S

It seems to me, that the UserProperties are not being loaded when the
items collection is filled. Is there any way to "Force" the loading of the
UserProperties for each item in the items collection?

Any ideas? Thanks!