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**Tom at GSD** · February 13th 08, 09:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_addins

It is PT_TSTRING AND we compile ansi

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote:

Did you validate that the SPropValue.ulPropType property type is really
PT_STRING8 and not PT_UNICODE?

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Tom at GSD" wrote in message
...

Hi Dmirty,

Of course I know about marshalling mostly because I have been doing COM
development since it was called OLE.

Here is what is going on. We have a custom Message store that implements a
few custom string properties. Each string is ANSI and this is a
non-unicode
store and transport. I can set a break point in the Message class in my
message store and the property is found, allocated and copied successfully
into PropValue structure. I have verified all of the functionality within
the Message Store and everything works wonderfully.

Now when we get the form server (ATL DLL) and I set a break point where
the
property is being requested from the Message Interface and the Value.lpszA
shows one character - and yes it is the proper first character of the
text.
So I decided to do an experiment and create one of my custom string
properties and change it to PT_BINARY. After doing that the entire string
is
transferred successfully. So I believe that we to do something special for
strings and I am not sure.
BTW - I can see all these properties successfully within Outlook 2003. So
that makes believe that I am missing something.

Thanks,
Tom

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote:

Are you sure the strings are comign ns ANSI strings and not Unicode?
What marshalling do you mean? An in-proc form server does nto need any
marshalling.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Tom at GSD" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

Well I have got my DLL up and running. The only problem is I cannot
transfer
strings that are longer than one character. So aftter trying to
marshall
and
a few other experiments I decided to transfer my strings as PT_BINARY
until I
figure out what the deal is with the PT_TSTRING.

"Tom at GSD" wrote:

Okay I solved that issue by deleting the following lines. However I am
still
NOT able to get my string property data. It actually crashes now
instead
of
giving me marshalling error. So I guess I off to determine what else I
need.

REMOVE - file=MyForms.dll
REMOVE - registry=InprocServer32 = %d\MyForms.dll

"Tom at GSD" wrote:

Hi Dmitry,

I move everything to an ATL DLL and bluntly Outlook will not load my
DLL.
Outlook does find and successfully load my configuration file via my
addin.
However when I try to open my message (custom open message form) it
does not
find my dll. Outlook gives me the typical message "Custom Form Could
not be
opened". When I set a break point in my DLL it never get hit - thus
meaning
the Outlook did not load it. I think I am missing a line in my
configuration
file. This is what I have in the pertinent secttions of my config
file.

[Description]
MessageClass=IPM.Note.MyCustomClass
Clsid={73F9C5BF-D47F-4B7C-B1B9-7AA13EED59F3}
DisplayName=Open Message Form
LargeIcon=32x32.ico
SmallIcon=16x16.ico

[Platforms]
Platform.1=NTx86

[Platform.NTx86]
CPU=Ix86
OSVersion=WinNT4.0
file=MyForms.dll
registry=InprocServer32 = %d\MyForms.dll

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tom

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote:

You can create your form server in a dll rather than an exe.
The CFG file will still be the same; it is just under the covers
Outlook
will be creating your form as an in-proc COM object. Of course
your
dll must
conform to all the usual COM rules, but ATL should be able to
handle
that
with no effort on your part.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Tom at GSD" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have created a custom form ATL local server that interfaces
with
Outlook
and my message store for one of our customers. The form server
supplies a
custom form for the open message form of my private message
class.
I have
run
into a unique problem that obviously requires marshalling. Since
it
is a
local ATL server I am unable to get string properties from my
IMessage
interface within my message store. I get the standard COM errors
for
unable
to retrieve the data. I have a couple questions that I am hoping
someone
may
shed some light on.

1. Can we create the Form Server as an inproc server and do away
with the
local server? If so how do I denote that within the CFG file? I
have read
a
couple old articles that say that this is not possible.
2. Does anybody have any sample marshalling code necessary for
the
MAPI
Message store?

Thanks,
Tom -