Web Development Tips and Examples
I am taking a look into the JQuery AutoComplete widget and wanted to create an example with the most simple and scaled down functionality possible. In the image to the left is an example of what this looks like in action. It is basically an HTML text area that is hooked up to a static array of options.
In this article I intend to further expand on my series of articles covering VSTO development of MS Outlook Add-in components using Visual Studio 2010. In previous articles I have covered things such as adding custom actions to archive email messages via the Application_ItemSend event, as well as adding custom code to save Outlook email messages to a database in the .MSG format.
I will review how to integrate a custom form with events in the Outlook Add-in component. However, I won’t review the GUI aspects of custom form development in Visual Studio since this primarily involves stepping through Wizards and drag and dropping controls to the form UI in Visual Studio. I will assume this is fairly self explanatory and has been covered in depth by Microsoft on it’s support Web site.
In a previous article I wrote about how to create a custom add-on for Outlook that will archive emails based on a keyword in the Email’s subject line. I will expand on this concept to show how to convert the sent email from an Interop.Outlook.MailItem COM object to a save-able .MSG email message. The ultimate goal of this is to convert the sent email into a format that can be saved to a database table as a VarBinary datatype.
Using the Application_ItemSend method of a Visual Studio 2010 Outlook Add-in project, one can capture the Email message being sent using the Outlook.MailItem object. Although in theory it would make sense that one could directly convert this object to a Byte array to be saved in a database table, this is in fact not a viable option. The Outlook.MailItem object is in fact a COM object that cannot be dynamically saved/loaded. To achieve the desired save/load functionality the Outlook.MailItem object will first need to be converted to a .MSG file.
Justin Cooney 