Is there a way to get all headers of all MailItems in folder fast, without iteration and get property of each item,
I know there is folder GetTable method but it supports only first 255 chars of string, so it's not good for headers.
Nope. The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for that. What is your final goal?
Note, you can run a secondary thread in Outlook where you can use a low-level code for gathering the required information. Extended MAPI supports multiuthreading. Or you may consider using any third-party wrappers around that API (for example, Redemption). Be aware, you shouldn't use OOM from secondary threads. Outlook will raise an exception if it detects such calls. See multi process in outlook addin for more informaiton.
I'm currently working on add in to outlook but face a problem my requirement is to add feature that is similar to spell checking (program will underline some of the text in real time). Is that even possible in vsto ? any material is appreciated i've searched for answer online - without any success
The integration you need would not be with VSTO or the Outlook Object Model, but rather mainly with the Word Object Model (WOM). Outlook users Word to render HTML formatted messages and provides access to the email as if it is a Word document, via the Inspector.WordEditor property which returns a Word.Document object.
So you can use WOM to format the body content as you see fit. However, there are no real-time events for hooking into changes of the message body as they occur. You will need to use either timers or low-level keyboard hooks to capture the changes that the user is making.
I am accessing my gmail account via IMAP, in C#.
In addition to the "Starred" folder, there is also the "Important" folder. Messages are added to this folder if you click the little yellow tag, or automatically based on google's magic.
As I am viewing items (in the inbox, or other folders) I would like to know if it is marked as important.
But this information does not appear in the Labels content, nor in the Flags (unread etc) content.
Is there any way to get the "Important" label to show up like the other labels on a message? Or some other way to examine the message to see it is important?
I have a Win Form application that does some boring accounting stuff and then sends it's data to some lucky recipients. I am using the Outlook 12.0 Interop objects and my applications environment ranges from office 2003 on XP to office 2007 on Win 7.
My issue lies with sending the corporate signature with the sent emails.
It contains two images and I would like to embed these images so they appear to be part of the body (assuming the receiving mail client supports that).
I have tried a few different methods of accomplishing this; but still no luck!
I have tried:
Extracting the html data from the signatures folder, changing the
html img tags src attribute to include 'file///'. This causes Outlook
to replace the 'file///' with 'CID' and I assumed it would also embed
the image... we should never assume :|. This is the method I found
worked best for getting the rest of the signature.
(After creating a new MailItem) - Grabbing the HTMLBody of the MailItem
and extracting the relevant part including the signature... This
didnt work due to the new MailItem object being very inconsistent
with it's signature. By that I mean sometimes the new item would
include the signature and sometimes it wouldn't! :s I cannot figure out why it is not always there, no other part of my code has changed!
I read on another post here about the GetInspector property... Apparently just calling this will do 'Some stuff' and the signature will magically appear in your mail item... NO!
Things I can't do:
I cannot (as much as i would like to) shove the images online
somewhere and point to them in the emails html.
I cannot use SMTP(It has to be through Outlook... sigh).
I am thinking that the best way seems to be my original method of messing about with the CID, but I do not really know much about what Outlook is doing in the background so I am having trouble figuring out what else I need to do to get the images sent along with the email.
Hoping someone out there has some idea about what I am doing wrong or what else I could try.
Please let me know if code would be helpful and I will post, (Most of the code tried is from this site... I just cannot find the links again and am trying to avoid making this question tooooo long).
Many thanks
This is not the most efficient or flexible solution you can use, but probably the most robust and portable. You can convert your image bitmap into plain HTML and embed that HTML in your e-mail signature.
The conversion is quite simple, you can use the utility I wrote (open source) here.
I need to create a web application that prints checks. Because of the nature of the program, it needs to be very secure, and each action needs to be logged. I need to be able to generate a check, print a check, allow reprints if needed, etc.
I've got the generation of the checks completed. I've decided to make a PDF (so that i don't get any browser header/footer garbage). What I'd like to do is not even save that PDF to a file but to instead send the data directly to a printer. Basically, I'd like for the user to enter the amount of the check, select which account it's going to be printed for, then click a button that sends the data for that check directly to the printer. I don't even want the user to be able to view the PDF of what's to be printed.
Has anyone done something similar to this in ASP.NET?
Thanks.
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The original question I asked was answered with ActiveX controls. I, however, decided to do it a different way. Instead of printing a PDF, I've decided to create an image of the background of the check. I will then use that image (.jpg), and manipulate it by placing the appropriate text (MICR line, amount, check date, etc.) on it using System.Drawing.Graphics and stored X,Y coordinates and font preferences in my DB. From there, I can use the System.Drawing.Printing namespace to send the new .jpg file to a network printer from the web server, eliminating the need for an activeX control and further tightening security because the new image of the finished check is never saved, and the user never has access to the overlay of the check.
Thanks for your help.
If you look at how postal services tackle this problem, you'll notice that a simple web application won't do. To have control over how and when items are sent to the printer, ActiveX compontents or Java software is used.
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Small clarification: I ment that the software has to run on the client-side as opposed to your suggested server-side suggestion.
If you want to go the .NET route, you're down to an ActiveX in Managed C++ or a Click-Once application that is launched from the web (allows more of the .NET language, but can be decompiled and altered).
We have implemented this scenario in a couple of ways. First, we have the traditional PDF solution, where the server generates the PDF print image, returns it to the browser which is then displayed via the PDF plug-in and optionally printed.
Second, we wrote a client-side ActiveX component to handle the print. Pass the input values to a backend web service which uses FOP to format the print into PCL. The PCL is passed back to the ActiveX component who then sends the PCL directly to the users default printer. No PDF required here.
Either way works, but only the second option - which will require you to implement some client-side piece - meets all your requirements.
There isn't really a way to do this. You can only send a document to the user which the user can then send to the printer. There are ways to prompt the print dialogue to pop straight up, but the web would be pretty insecure if you were allowed to control how data was managed on the user's machine.
NKCSS is right that it would require software actually installed on the user's machine. You have done as much as you can by making it a PDF that the user is prompted to print.
If you had the cheque as html, you can used styles to show/hide content just for the printer as discussed in this post: here
There's no way to do this completely securely. Even if you force the PDF to print directly to the user's default printer, that itself could be a PostScript or PDF printer like PDFCreator. So they could still get a viewable PDF in the end.