Back on working with this issue. I finally got a COM addin working. Outlook 2007 and 2010 is working now. I have our toolbar in Outlook in both version, but it currently cannot do anything since I have not been able to figure out exactly how to get the MAPI session so that I can see what account I'm on.

I do get the notification when the user click on the folder, since that is all we care about using the SINK that I have provided below:


SINK_ENTRY_INFO(1,__uuidof(Outlook::ExplorerEvents ),/*dispinterface*/0xf002,OnFolderChange,&OnSimpleEventInfo);


How do I go about getting the Extended MAPI on that folder? If I do the following:


BSTR EntryID;
CComPtrOutlook::MAPIFolder MapiFolder;

m_spExplorer-get_CurrentFolder(&MapiFolder);
MapiFolder-get_EntryID(&EntryID);


Once I get the "EntryID", how do I go about opening the message store (IMsgStore/LPMDB) since I need to know what message store we are dealing with..
Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com

You really need to preserve parts of preceding messages in the thread, it
makes it very hard to figure out what you're talking about when you snip
things like that.

Once you have an EntryID you need to use that to get the folder using the
NameSpace.GetFolderFromID() method.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
Back on working with this issue. I finally got a COM addin working.
Outlook 2007 and 2010 is working now. I have our toolbar in Outlook in
both version, but it currently cannot do anything since I have not been
able to figure out exactly how to get the MAPI session so that I can see
what account I'm on.

I do get the notification when the user click on the folder, since that is
all we care about using the SINK that I have provided below:


SINK_ENTRY_INFO(1,__uuidof(Outlook::ExplorerEvents ),/*dispinterface*/0xf002,OnFolderChange,&OnSimpleEventInfo);


How do I go about getting the Extended MAPI on that folder? If I do the
following:


BSTR EntryID;
CComPtrOutlook::MAPIFolder MapiFolder;

m_spExplorer-get_CurrentFolder(&MapiFolder);
MapiFolder-get_EntryID(&EntryID);


Once I get the "EntryID", how do I go about opening the message store
(IMsgStore/LPMDB) since I need to know what message store we are dealing
with.. Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com

Thanks. Now I have another problem with Outlook 2007. Whenever I click on the toolbar button, I'm getting two invokes into my "CButtonHandler::Invoke" method. I do not get that in 2003 and 2010.

But what is strange is that I do not get two callback when I click on the menu item in the drop down menu. Just the toolbar.

Is there something else that I need to handle that issue for 2007?

kenslovak wrote on Mon, 10 May 2010 09:58
You really need to preserve parts of preceding messages in the thread, it
makes it very hard to figure out what you're talking about when you snip
things like that.

Once you have an EntryID you need to use that to get the folder using the
NameSpace.GetFolderFromID() method.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
Back on working with this issue. I finally got a COM addin working.
Outlook 2007 and 2010 is working now. I have our toolbar in Outlook in
both version, but it currently cannot do anything since I have not been
able to figure out exactly how to get the MAPI session so that I can see
what account I'm on.

I do get the notification when the user click on the folder, since that is
all we care about using the SINK that I have provided below:


SINK_ENTRY_INFO(1,__uuidof(Outlook::ExplorerEvents ),/*dispin terface*/0xf002,OnFolderChange,&OnSimpleEventInfo);


How do I go about getting the Extended MAPI on that folder? If I do the
following:


BSTR EntryID;
CComPtrOutlook::MAPIFolder MapiFolder;

m_spExplorer-get_CurrentFolder(&MapiFolder);
MapiFolder-get_EntryID(&EntryID);


Once I get the "EntryID", how do I go about opening the message store
(IMsgStore/LPMDB) since I need to know what message store we are dealing
with.. Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com

There is no difference in handling a
toolbar/menu/CommandBar/CommandBarPopup/etc. in Outlook 2007, 2003, or any
other version that supports that interface.

Usually if you get 2 click events firing for one click it means that the
buttons you created use the same Tag property. Every Tag should be unique.
If more than one button has the same Tag you will get one click event per
button using that Tag.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
Thanks. Now I have another problem with Outlook 2007. Whenever I click
on the toolbar button, I'm getting two invokes into my
"CButtonHandler::Invoke" method. I do not get that in 2003 and 2010.

But what is strange is that I do not get two callback when I click on the
menu item in the drop down menu. Just the toolbar.

Is there something else that I need to handle that issue for 2007?

Are you talking about the CommandBarControl.put_Tag? If so, all of the strings is unique.

kenslovak wrote on Mon, 10 May 2010 13:08
There is no difference in handling a
toolbar/menu/CommandBar/CommandBarPopup/etc. in Outlook 2007, 2003, or any
other version that supports that interface.

Usually if you get 2 click events firing for one click it means that the
buttons you created use the same Tag property. Every Tag should be unique.
If more than one button has the same Tag you will get one click event per
button using that Tag.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
Thanks. Now I have another problem with Outlook 2007. Whenever I click
on the toolbar button, I'm getting two invokes into my
"CButtonHandler::Invoke" method. I do not get that in 2003 and 2010.

But what is strange is that I do not get two callback when I click on the
menu item in the drop down menu. Just the toolbar.

Is there something else that I need to handle that issue for 2007?

I don't like using a pure guid for that. I often have to maintain state on
things such as toggle buttons on a per Inspector basis. What I do is
maintain a key property (int) that I use as an index into wrapper
collections for Inspectors and Explorers. Each wrapper class stores the key
value for that instance, which is a unique number during that Outlook
session. Then I take the key value and add that as a string to a unique tag
string or guid. That way I can always tell what specific button or
Inspector/Explorer a tag belongs to.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
I resolved this issue. I changed the code to do:


CommandBarControl.put_Tag(Guid.NewGuid().ToString( ));


I did that to all of the CommandBarControl and the double invoke stopped.
Not sure which one I was missing or had the same strings. But, using the
GUID string will make it easier to not forget or have the same string.

I can see that if we need to keep some sort of state for the button/menu items. But, we don't have any state that we need to keep track for our buttons. So, for now this will do.

kenslovak wrote on Mon, 10 May 2010 14:58
I don't like using a pure guid for that. I often have to maintain state on
things such as toggle buttons on a per Inspector basis. What I do is
maintain a key property (int) that I use as an index into wrapper
collections for Inspectors and Explorers. Each wrapper class stores the key
value for that instance, which is a unique number during that Outlook
session. Then I take the key value and add that as a string to a unique tag
string or guid. That way I can always tell what specific button or
Inspector/Explorer a tag belongs to.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Shawn" swalker[at]bynari[dot]net wrote in message
...
I resolved this issue. I changed the code to do:


CommandBarControl.put_Tag(Guid.NewGuid().ToString( ));


I did that to all of the CommandBarControl and the double invoke stopped.
Not sure which one I was missing or had the same strings. But, using the
GUID string will make it easier to not forget or have the same string.