How To Automate Outlook Using Visual C++/MFC
Article ID | : | 220600 |
Last Review | : | June 29, 2004 |
Revision | : | 1.0 |
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Automating Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 | |||||
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SUMMARY
You can programmatically control Microsoft Outlook using Microsoft Visual C++. This article demonstrates how to create contacts, create appointments, and send messages using Microsoft Outlook's object-model from Visual C++.
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Follow the steps below to build and run the example:
1. | Start Visual C++ and create a new MFC EXE dialog-based application. | ||||||||||||
2. | Add a button to your dialog. | ||||||||||||
3. | Double-click the button to add a handler for it, and add the following code:
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4. | Bring up the ClassWizard (Control-W) click the Automation Tab, and choose "From a type library" under the Add Class menu. | ||||||||||||
5. | In the dialog box that comes up, navigate to the directory where Outlook is installed, and choose the Outlook type library (see table below). Select all the items it finds, and click OK to have ClassWizard generate MFC wrapper classes for all of them:
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6. | Add the following just before the implementation of your button handler:
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7. | Compile and run the project. Once it has run, you should have a new contact named James Smith, an appointment scheduled in two minutes with a reminder to appear in one minute, and have sent a message to someone@microsoft.com. Also, because you added a birthday for your contact (9/15), a recurring event was added for your Outlook Calendar to remind you on that day. |
Automating Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003
You can use the sample code previously described to automate Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 with one small change. The Outlook 97 Namespace class member has changed to _Namespace in Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003. To use the code above for automating Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 change this line:Namespace olNS(olApp.GetNames("MAPI"));
to:
_Namespace olNS(olApp.GetNames("MAPI"));
A new virus protection feature of Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003 causes a dialog box to appear advising you that a program is using your address list and sending e-mail from your computer. It asks your approval to continue.
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For additional information about automation of Outlook, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
199870
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199870/) How To Send a Message by Outlook Object Model with VC++
196776
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196776/) Office Automation Using Visual C++