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c#vstooutlook-2007
craftsman
craftsman

Reputation: 15623

How to capture OutlookContact.Write event?

I am trying to hook a method with Application.ItemLoad event:

private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    this.Application.ItemLoad += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationEvents_11_ItemLoadEventHandler(Application_ItemLoad);
}

Which would check if current item is ContactItem. If it is a ContactItem it would check if the property ContactItem.User4 contains value xxx. If ContactItem.User4 contains value xxx, it would hook another method with ContactItem.Write event:

void Application_ItemLoad(object Item)
        {
            if (Item is Outlook.ContactItem)
            {
                Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)Item;
                System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("A new contact is loaded into memory");

                try
                {
                    string user4 = contact.User4;
                    bool isSynchronized =  user4 != null && user4.Contains("xxx");

                    if (isSynchronized)
                    {
                        contact.Write += propertyChangeHandler;
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("An error occurred: "+e);
                }
            }
        }

Now the problem is, whenever I try to access ContactItem.User4 property, I get an exception:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The item's properties and methods cannot be used inside this event procedure.

What should I do that I don't get the above error?

Thanks for reading my long question and looking forward to your suggestions.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1552

Answers (1)

SliverNinja - MSFT
SliverNinja - MSFT

Reputation: 31641

You need to use a different event. According to this post - the contents of the item are not yet loaded into memory. You should look at the Application.Inspectors event NewInspector.

Upvotes: 2

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