Hi

When i right click on a Outlook Mail, along with the other existing options i need to get one option like "Status" under which two sub-options like "Approve" and "Reject" should be there.

Upon selecting the Approve or Reject option, i should be able to automatically update a field in my database as "1" for Approve and "0" for Reject.

Can anyone help me in this regard.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Muppidi.

Outlook version?

For Outlook 2003 or earlier you can hack something that will fire when an
item in the folder view (Explorer) is clicked, but you won't be able to tell
which item was clicked or even if the click was on an item or somewhere else
like the Navigation Pane. So that's pretty useless for what you want.

For Outlook 2007 there are new context menu events that fire from the
Application object, the one you'd want would be the ItemContextMenuDisplay()
event. That tells you which item or items were selected when the right-click
occurred. See the Object Browser Help on that event to see how it works.

--
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


"pavanmuppidi" wrote in message
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Hi

When i right click on a Outlook Mail, along with the other existing
options i need to get one option like "Status" under which two
sub-options like "Approve" and "Reject" should be there.

Upon selecting the Approve or Reject option, i should be able to
automatically update a field in my database as "1" for Approve and "0"
for Reject.

Can anyone help me in this regard.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Muppidi.




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pavanmuppidi

i'm trying to work out with VS 2005 and Outlook 2007.

can u brief me the steps to acheive this task or any helpful links .

still no progress from my side

trying with reference of this but getting errors.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175110.aspx

looking forward for ur reply

Regards,
Muppidi.

Yes, that's exactly what you need to use and the link has VBA code to use
the event. Have you tried pasting that code into your VBA project and
modifying it and then testing with that?

What errors are you getting? Did you try translating that VBA sample code to
whatever language you're using (either VB.NET or C#)? What code are you
trying to use?

--
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


"pavanmuppidi" wrote in message
news

i'm trying to work out with VS 2005 and Outlook 2007.

can u brief me the steps to acheive this task or any helpful links .

still no progress from my side

trying with reference of this but getting errors.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175110.aspx

looking forward for ur reply

Regards,
Muppidi.




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pavanmuppidi

Private Sub Application_ItemContextMenuDisplay(ByVal CommandBar As Office.CommandBar, ByVal Selection As Selection)

Static intCounter As Integer

On Error GoTo ErrRoutine

' Increment or reset the counter
If intCounter 1 Or intCounter 100 Then
intCounter = 1
Else
intCounter = intCounter + 1
End If

' Add the menu.
Dim objMenu As Object
objMenu = CommandBar.Controls.Add(msoControlButton)
objMenu.Caption = "Displayed " & intCounter & " times"
objMenu.Enabled = False
objMenu.BeginGroup = True

EndRoutine:
On Error GoTo 0
Exit Sub

ErrRoutine:
MsgBox(Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, _
vbOKOnly Or vbCritical, _
"Application_ItemContextMenuDisplay")

GoTo EndRoutine
End Sub

i'm getting error at

1) "Selection" (Type Selection is not defined)
2) "msoControlButton" (msoControlButton name not defined.)

i would like to do this in C#.Net. (or VB.Net)

could u suggest me to resolve this.

Regards,
Muppidi.

public void OnConnection(object application, Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
{
applicationObject = (Outlook.Application)application;
addInInstance = addInInst;

applicationObject.FolderContextMenuDisplay += new
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationEvents _11_FolderContextMenuDisplayEventHandler(
applicationObject_FolderContextMenuDisplay);
}

void applicationObject_FolderContextMenuDisplay(Microso ft.Office.Core.CommandBar commandBar, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder folder)
{
CommandBarButton button = (CommandBarButton)commandBar.Controls.Add(
MsoControlType.msoControlButton, 1, Type.Missing,
commandBar.Controls.Count - 1, true );
// Exception occurs on next line:
button.Tag = folder.EntryID + ";" + folder.StoreID;
button.Caption = "My Command";
}

this is the other piece of code i've tried.
but @ Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode , the error is coming.
MISSING NAMESPACE OR TYPE.
these are the namespaces i've used.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;

I'm totally new to these concepts. plz help.
where is the mistake?


Regards,
Muppidi.