Outlook Banter - View Single Post - Import custom forms from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003

**Hollis Paul [MVP - Outlook]** · May 14th 06, 05:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms

In article .com,
wrote:
I have created custom forms in Outlook 2000 (Windows 98) and upgraded
now to Outlook 2003 (Win XP). What is the correct way to make the
custom forms also available in Outlook 2003? Is there a way to import
those forms or do I need to redesign them?
I would be very grateful for some advice.

Well, presumably you published these custom forms to your Exchange
forms library, and you can just leave them there. Your new clients
will access them in the same way the old ones did. And the OFL is
migrated when Exchange is updated. You don't have to do anything.

Be advised that the names of objects sometimes change between Outlook
versions, so the code will not necessarily run correctly when you
upgrade the client. In that case, you need to determine what lines of
code are throwing errors, examine the new Outlook Object Model to
determine what the new names of the objects are, and rewrite the code
for use with the new Outlook clients.

You may also find that the newer Outlook clients raise security dialogs
as you programmatically access the address book, etc. You can avoid
these dialog boxes by using special Redemption objects. See
www.dimastr.com/Redemption .

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Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA