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Varun K
Varun K

Reputation: 3638

How to Show dialogs (reply/forward/etc) programmatically from within outlook 2010 addin

I have a mail item that is picked from one of the folders of outlook. I'd like to open, say outlook native Reply dialog for this mail item. How can I do that?

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Varun K
Varun K

Reputation: 3638

Ok, I have figured out the answer myself (so fast!)

After some googling, I landed on this page Outlook Object Model, Stumble upon the following point

Use the GetInspector method of a specific item, such as a MailItem or ppointmentItem, to retrieve the Inspector that is associated with it.

Note from that page only

The Inspector object represents a window that displays a single item such as an e-mail message, task, or appointment

At this point I remembered that MailItem has methods for forward/reply; however, those return respective MailItem objects. I then remembered that I also saw there a Display method within the class that shows an associated inspector ... browsing through to the definition of Display, it was revealed that it "displays" a new inspector for that object. Wow!

So here's the code for those who are keen to know and has to read all through my perhaps boring tale of deduction:

mailItem.Reply().Display();

It's that simple! What a shame! :-)

Upvotes: 3

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