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Reputation: 1587

What's the equivalent in C# of this VB code on an Outlook form?

Basically, how do I link an Outlook form and a C# back end? In VB you can write on the form

Sub ButtonName_Click()
    Dim Recipients

    With Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("Message")
        Set Recipients = .Controls("To")
    End With
End Sub

which will fire whenever the button named "ButtonName" on the form is clicked and will set the variable Recipients to a string of whatever is in the To text box.

Now I have a custom form, and I have a VS C# Outlook Add-in, and they're two separate things. I've got an event handler that can catch MailItem objects, but I don't know how to handle custom form button clicks or even how to access elements on the form.

EDIT - Just to clarify, the custom form was created in Outlook and then its .ofs was imported into VS. Both Outlook and VS are 2010. I have since redesigned the form in VS.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 309

Answers (1)

Richard Cook
Richard Cook

Reputation: 33089

  1. Double-click on the button Name on the form. This will generate a handler for the default event which happens to be "click" in this case. It will generate a method named buttonName_Click.
  2. Declare recipients in your class of type string: private string recipients.
  3. In buttonName_Click assign to recipients as appropriate.

In order to know exactly what code to write in the handler, I'll need to know what type of add-in this is. Most likely, the C# code will look something like:

recipients = this.Item.GetInspector().ModifiedFormPages["Message"].Controls["To"];

Upvotes: 1

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