Need help with Outlook and VB (Drag and Drop)
To answer your question, yes. I had to tweak my script a little to get it
to recieve from the desktop. However ultimately I will need to accept the
data from Outlook regardless of where the email is stored. I heard back
from the guys that made Redemption and according to them:
"You can only do that using Extended MAPI (C++/Delphi)." Unless I can find
another route I'm afraid I'm stuck. I need to go live ASAP and rewriting my
script for C++ and the term ASAP do not go hand in hand :)
Justin
Quote:
> if you reassociate *.msg with notepad (or change the extension to txt),
can
> you do it? (this is assuming the msg are on the hard drive, not in
outlook's
> message store)
> > I'm told that the Outlook Object Model is very restrictive. Hence the
> fact
> > that I'm not getting very much info. While the MSG file is proprietary
if
> > you look at it via notepad it does contain the info I need in TEXT form.
> > I've been pointed to something called the Redemption COM object that
opens
> > up Outlook but I'm having no luck with it.
message
> > > OE uses a plain text format for *.eml's, Outlook's *.msg is
proprietary-
> > for
> > > your app to work it'll need to read the msg format or access the
outlook
> > > data via the object model.
> > > > Whenever I post a question regarding Drag and Drop in the VB
> newsgroups
> > I
> > > > get "0" replies. So I figured since my question is also Outlook
> related
> > > I'd
> > > > try here.
> > > > When I drag and drop an email from Outlook Express into my VB app it
> > > strips
> > > > all the email addresses from within it and does what I need it to
do.
> > > > However, when I drag and drop a message from Outlook I get next to
> > nothing
> > > > for data. I get no email address info or body of the message.
> > > > Does anyone here have any experience with Dragging and dropping from
> > > > Outlook? Please contact me,
> > > > Justin
> > > > Thanks!