Hello all,

I am in the process of creating an Outlook addin using VSTO, which
will involve contact information stored in Exchange Public Folders. I
have successfuly been able to create new contacts in these folders and
work with them, but am encountering a problem when I try to do this
while operating in cached mode and the folders in question have been
added to my Favorites folder.

I have had success adding a single new contact in this scenario, but
when performing a batch addition (looping through an external database
and attempting to add new contacts into my Public Folder heirarchy), I
later look at the new contacts (in VB .NET) and find that
their .Parent.FullFolderPath returns "\\Public Folders\Favorites
\Contacts" as opposed to the actual folder where they are stored. I do
not have a "Favorites\Contacts" folder (as least not that I can see
through Outlook).

If I perform the same batch addition but first remove these folders
from my Favorites, the contact items' .Parent.FullFolderPath property
returns the correct path. As I mentioned above, I have been successful
adding single contacts without first removing the folders from
Favorites.

Does anyone have an explanation as to what might be going on here, or
possibly some ideas on where to research it further? Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Berkley Barnard