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iOS phone link opening message app instead of calling the number

I want a phone number from a TextView to call the phone number when clicked:
The issue I am facing is that when clicking the link, the message app is opening instead. I tried the following code in iOS 12 and it worked as expected, but when I try on iOS 13 and 14, the message app opens instead of making a call using the "phone dialer app".
Tentative 1:
textView.Editable = false;
textView.DataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorType.PhoneNumber;
Tentative 2:
var phoneNumberLink = new Dictionary<string, string>(){ { "(855) 757-7328","tel:8557577328" } }
textView.Editable = false;
textView.SetAttributedTextForLinks("Please call us at (855) 757-7328", phoneNumberLink);

Actually, telpromt://0123456789 also did not work. I had to intercept the interaction with URL, the recommended ShouldInteractWithUrl did not work (ShouldInteractWithUrl was not triggered or called), so I had to use AllowUrlInteraction instead. The code looked something like this:
var description = new KiteEmbeddedLinkTextView()
{
Editable = false,
DataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorType.PhoneNumber,
Text = message.MessageText
};
description.AllowUrlInteraction += AllowUrlInteraction;
private bool AllowUrlInteraction(UITextView textView, NSUrl url, NSRange characterRange, UITextItemInteraction interaction)
{
UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl(url);
return false;
}
For some reason none of the previous options worked for me, besides this one.
See:
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/60345/uitextview-and-clickable-phonenumbers
How to intercept click on link in UITextView?

As mentioned https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/33798/open-phone-dialer-from-app
The correct way to open the dialer is
telprompt://0123456789
Make sure that there are no spaces.

Moving Mail to Outlook Sent Folder. Mail is still editable

I am editing an email and send it to the recipient. But i also want to save the original mail in the sent folder. But if i move the mailobject to the folder the mail is still editable.
This is how i move the mail:
private void CopyMailToSent(Outlook.MailItem originalMail)
{
var folder = originalMail.SaveSentMessageFolder;
originalMail.Move(folder);
}
Can i set the mailobject to readonly or faking the send?

Firstly, Outlook Object Model would not let you set the MailItem.Sent property at all. On the MAPI level, the MSGFLAG_UNSENT bit in the PR_MESSAGE_FLAGS property can only be set before the message is saved for the very first time.
The only OOM workaround I am aware of is to create a post item (it is created in the sent state), set its message class to "IPM.Note", save it, release it, reopen by the entry id (it will be now MailItem in the sent state), reset the icon using PropertyAccessor, set some sender properties (OOM won't let you set all of them).
If using Redemption (I am its author) is an option, it will let you set the Sent property as well as the sender related properties, plus add recipients without having to resolve them.
Set MySession = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
MySession.MAPIOBJECT = Application.Session.MAPIOBJECT
Set folder = MySession.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)
Set msg = folder.Items.Add("IPM.Note")
msg.Sent = True
msg.Recipients.AddEx "Joe The User", "joe#domain.demo", "SMTP", olTo
msg.Sender = MySession.CurrentUser
msg.SentOnBehalfOf = MySession.CurrentUser
msg.subject = "Test sent message"
msg.Body = "test body"
msg.UnRead = false
msg.SentOn = Now
msg.ReceivedTime = Now
msg.Save

I couldn't solve the problem but i did workaround which works fine for me.
I hope it's ok to post this here even it's not right the solution. If not, sorry i will delete it.
My workaround is saving the orignal mail as ".msg" file and then add it to the mail in the sent folder.
Then it looks like this:
This is the code:
private void SendMail(Outlook.Mailitem mail)
{
mail.SaveAs(tempDirectory + #"originalMail.msg");
var folder = mail.SaveSentMessageFolder;
ChangeMailSubject(mail);
ChangeMailText(mail);
mail.Send();
folder.Items.ItemAdd += new Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler((sender) => AttachOriginalMail(sender);
}
private void AttachOriginalMail(object sender)
{
var mail = (Outlook.MailItem) sender;
mail.Attachments.Add(tempDirectory + #"originalMail.msg");
mail.Save();
}

Is it possible to directly open the Outlook meeting window?

I am trying to have my application to open the Outlook meeting window with some pre-populated fields.
I have found that this question was already asked here.
However, the code provided in the answer(which works fine) doesn't open the meeting window but the appointement window. Those are two different things that are handled differently in Outlook and what I need is indeed the meeting window.
Is there any way to achieve this or do I absolutely have to open the appointement window first and then invite people to turn it into a meeting?

Create an appointment just as in the other question, but then set the MeetingStatus property of the appointment.
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlookApplication = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); ;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem appointmentItem = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem)outlookApplication.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem);
// This line was added
appointmentItem.MeetingStatus = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlMeetingStatus.olMeeting;
appointmentItem.Subject = "Meeting Subject";
appointmentItem.Body = "The body of the meeting";
appointmentItem.Location = "Room #1";
appointmentItem.Start = DateTime.Now;
appointmentItem.Recipients.Add("test#test.com");
appointmentItem.End = DateTime.Now.AddHours(1);
appointmentItem.ReminderSet = true;
appointmentItem.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15;
appointmentItem.Importance = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceHigh;
appointmentItem.BusyStatus = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBusyStatus.olBusy;
appointmentItem.Recipients.ResolveAll();
appointmentItem.Display(true);

One more note to NineBerries good solution, because I had an issue here:
The line
appointmentItem.Recipients.ResolveAll();
is necessary if you have optional attendees in the meeting.
Otherwise they will be reset to "required" even if you set
recipient.Type = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olOptional;
before, which is due to "late auto-resolving" of names in Outlook (or so it seems).

Send all email data to a service from an outlook addin

I'm new to office addins. I'm an MVC programmer but this project has been dumped on me as no one else wants to do it. I need to create an outlook addin that will forward all email data to a service where communications can be tracked by a recruitment system.
I am using
Application.ItemSend += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationEvents_11_ItemSendEventHandler(saveEmail);
where I then cast the email into a Outlook.MailItem. The problem is I see no way of getting the from and to email addresses. All it gives me is the name of the people. Am I missing something?
So far the best solution I can think of is to save the msg as a .msg file. Forward that to my service and then user a parser I found to convert it to HTML.
Any suggestions?

To access the recipients, loop through MailItem.Recipients collection and access Recipient.Name and Recipient.Address properties.
Sender related properties are not yet set by the time ItemSend event fires - the earliest you can access sender properties is when Items.ItemAdd event fires on the Sent Items folder (retrieve it using Namespace.GetDefaultFolder).
You can read the MailItem.SendUsingAccount. If it is null, use the first Account from the Namespace.Acounts collection. You can then use Account.Recipient object.
Keep in mind that you should not blindly cast outgoing items to MailItem objects - you can also have MeetingItem and TaskRequestItem objects.

OK using the info given to me by Dmitry Streblechenko and some other info I just looked up here is my solution so far.
In the ItemSend event I first make sure that sent email is moved to the default sent items folder. I'm testing outlook using gmail so normally these will go elsewhere. sentMailItems is made as a class field as apparently it will get garbage collected if its just declared inside the Startup function (Something quite odd to me an MVC programmer :) ).
I' will test this on exchange when I get back to office an hopefully all goes well.
public partial class ThisAddIn
{
public Outlook.Items sentMailItems;
private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Application.ItemSend += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationEvents_11_ItemSendEventHandler(ItemSend);
sentMailItems = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail).Items;
sentMailItems.ItemAdd += new Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);
}
void Items_ItemAdd(object item)
{
MessageBox.Show(((Outlook.MailItem)item).Subject);
var msg = Item as Outlook.MailItem;
string from = msg.SenderEmailAddress;
string allRecip = "";
foreach (Outlook.Recipient recip in msg.Recipients)
{
allRecip += "," + recip.Address;
}
}
private void ItemSend(object Item, ref bool Cancel)
{
if (!(Item is Outlook.MailItem))
return;
var msg = Item as Outlook.MailItem;
msg.DeleteAfterSubmit = false; // force storage to sent items folder (ignore user options)
Outlook.Folder sentFolder = this.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail) as Outlook.Folder;
if (sentFolder != null)
msg.SaveSentMessageFolder = sentFolder; // override the default sent items location
msg.Save();
}
//Other auto gen code here....
}

C# send email with Outlook - No attachment in Outbox

I have a program that is using Outlook to send messages with attachments. It is working ok, sending emails with attachments but in outbox there is no attachment in the message. When somebody receive the message the attachment is visible but in outbox not.
Here is some code:
Outlook.MailItem mail = (Outlook.MailItem)outlookApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
mail.BodyFormat = Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatPlain;
int iAttachType = (int)Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue;
mail.Attachments.Add(Application.StartupPath+"/"+attachment, iAttachType, null, attachment);
mail.To = email;
mail.Subject = "Something";
mail.Body = "Some body";
mail.Send();
Before this I use:
private Outlook.Application outlookApp;
private Outlook._NameSpace outlookNameSpace;
private Outlook.MAPIFolder outbox;
and
outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
outlookNameSpace = outlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
outlookNameSpace.Logon(null, null, false, false);
outbox = outlookNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderOutbox);
My outlook program is connected with Microsoft Exchange Serwer. When I was using an application written in C++ it saved attachment in messages in outbox.
Thx for help!

You could be working with an old version of the outlook item.
This can happen if you keep references to your mail items, rec-patterns, inspectors and some other types [that I now forgot] longer than you need them.
Your reference will often point to the old version of the item and keeping it can also prevent you from getting a reference to the updated one (the one with the attachment), even when events (Folder.BeforeItemMove) are triggered.
Also, have you tried if mail.Save() would do anything for you?
This is what I use as soon as I am done with an item.
public static void NullAndRelease(object o)
{
if (o == null) {
return;
}
try {
int releaseResult = 0;
do {
releaseResult = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(o);
} while (releaseResult >= 0);
} catch {
} finally {
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
}
}
The catch has no message and is not important in my case. It is there if someone would pass in a reference that leads to something other than a com object. You can also try FinalReleaseComObject(o).