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Want to populate "New Message" window using Extended MAPI in C++

Hello There, I want to populate Outlook "New Message" window programmatically with To and Cc fields populated. Does the Extended MAPI have API for it? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Amol S

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-04T18:33:13.657+00:00
Amol S 21 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-07T07:56:58.047+00:00
Victor Ivanidze 101 Reputation points
2 answers

Access 2016 compatibility with O365

I have a small multi user (3 or 4) app that has been stable for more than 10 years but since October 2020 frequently (once or twice a day) crashes with a 'Unrecognized database format' error. The system can be recovered by deleting the lock file on…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-06T19:08:33.997+00:00
James McLeod 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-01-06T23:28:29.957+00:00
C Data 6 Reputation points
1 answer

How to lock a table in Access so the data can not be manipulated?

Hello, I have a table with many queries and I don't want the data to be edited in the query and change in the table I would like that information to be locked so it cant be edited but I need the end of the table to be able to be edited but not the…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-04T16:11:00.517+00:00
Arianna D'Agostino 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-01-06T23:27:00.873+00:00
Daniel Pineault 441 Reputation points MVP
2 answers

Outlook shared mailbox - get sending account from email

Hi All, I have an Outlook profile with several email accounts and two shared mailboxes. Each shared mailbox I can manually send an email and it will use the proper account to send the email (designated accounts below)l. Obviously, the email account…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-29T20:57:13.093+00:00
gigasoft 21 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-06T10:10:19.6+00:00
Doug Robbins - MVP 716 Reputation points
0 answers

Outlook add in form post issue

I am working on outlook add-in using Angular 10. Have an use case to do form post with body parameter. The body parameter getting passed without any issue from web outlook but the same it is not working from outlook client. A quick help on this will be a…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-05T18:03:25.29+00:00
Kumar Veerappan 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-01-06T04:15:23.727+00:00
Jade Liang-MSFT 9,971 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers

Questions about Office-add-ins.

Hello. I would like to ask technical questions about the [Office Add-ins platform][1]? Can I ask those questions here? If not, what Microsoft forum would be the best place to ask such questions? Thanks in advance.

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-03T15:36:10.8+00:00
Carl Gross 51 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-05T16:21:07.763+00:00
Carl Gross 51 Reputation points
0 answers

VSTO: How to add custom menu to Excel File menu

Hello All, Using a ribbon component, I added a file menu, but it does not appear in Excel after execution, but it appears when I add a button. Is it possible to add menu component to file menu? When I add the button it shows up under…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-04T12:40:59.503+00:00
Naresh 1 Reputation point
0 answers

How to increase Word Add-in task pane width?

I have been looking all over the net for this issue. I would like to know if it is possible for programmatically increase the width of Windows task pane width. Can I create a custom task pane for that? I know its possible as I have come across and add-in…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-03T05:50:04.663+00:00
TechTalk 26 Reputation points
0 answers

Outlook VSTO this.OutlookFormRegion

Hi, I am creating an Outlook VSTO in C# and was wondering if there was a way to change the background color of the Form Region at runtime? // Use this.OutlookFormRegion to get a reference to the form region. private void…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2021-01-02T21:20:44.437+00:00
Alastair MacFarlane 26 Reputation points
1 answer

Microsoft Q&A for Access

Microsoft Q&A for Access does not seem to work as of Dec 28. the hotlink to Microsoft 365 works... but the choice offered at 'Office Client Development' does not work - - if one selects 'Access' you instead end up at a site for 'Add-Ons'…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-28T17:43:31.027+00:00
C Data 6 Reputation points
answered 2020-12-29T09:12:38.82+00:00
Isladogs 16 Reputation points
0 answers

Real number of recipients

Hello, What is the best (fastest) way to estimate or calculate precisely the number of recipients of an email containing nested Exchanges mailing lists? I have tried parsing each addressEntry of each recipient recursively, but this method is very…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-28T16:19:11.017+00:00
MrLynLyon 1 Reputation point
2 answers

How to deploy VSTO AddIn in Terminal Server environment with roaming profiles?

According to kb 2571899 (https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/troubleshoot/dotnet/framework/clickonce-not-support-roaming-profiles) ClickOnce cannot be used for roaming profiles. Does this also affect VSTO-AddIns, which are not deployed by MSI? Only…

Windows
Windows
A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.
4,994 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-28T09:00:25.857+00:00
Peter Eberlein 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-12-28T11:19:40.49+00:00
Mark Heitbrink 96 Reputation points
1 answer

How to embed an OLE object in the margin of a Word docx file

Trying to embed an OLE object in the margin of a legal file of a Word to avoid moving the text around because each line is numbered for reference. Used VSTO.

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-22T19:43:18.95+00:00
Don 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-12-28T08:03:31.233+00:00
Emily Hua-MSFT 27,576 Reputation points
1 answer

Who sets/limits stack space

I am getting an "out of stack space" error running my Microsoft Access program. I have run this Access program on 4 different platforms ranging from i5 with 4GB ram running windows 7, to i7 with 16GB ram. It has a recursive subroutine that…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-26T17:13:44.767+00:00
K HRUSKA 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-12-28T01:20:11.117+00:00
JimmyYang-MSFT 50,106 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
0 answers

EWS API - how to get only latest message per conversation

Wish a very Merry Christmas for everyone! I have Outlook addin, that should track some particular threads in user's mailbox. It has collection of Conversation Ids, and uses FindItem operation for searching related items. I'm puzzled - how make EWS…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-25T11:16:03.317+00:00
Andrew Filippov 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Microsoft 356 Add on: office 365 has been configured to prevent individual acquisition and execution of Office Store Add-ins

Hey, One of my clients want's to use visio as an add on for Excel. I followed the steps previously stated in this post:…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-24T09:25:44.377+00:00
Neil Ledoux 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Ideas for refreshing whole contents of Word with VSTO document-level addin

Hi all, Do you have any ideas/scenarios to refresh whole contents in Word document which is attached VSTO document-level addin? The best scenario for me is "Re-open" the another document with keeping the attachment of VSTO addin to extract…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-24T07:50:46.177+00:00
sadap 1 Reputation point
1 answer

Outlook addin on mobile using graph api

Hi there, I am developing an outlook addin which is using graph api. With msal, i can get the token with pop up flow in outlook web. However when i deploy it to mobile, e.g. ios outlook app, the pop up window won't show and there is no way for me to…

Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph
A Microsoft programmability model that exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft 365 services.
11,229 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-14T02:32:49.4+00:00
James 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-12-23T01:52:15.403+00:00
James 21 Reputation points
0 answers

Excel vba Sheets.rows.cut vs sheets.rows.copy

Within my workbook I have several sheets and am moving data from one sheet to another through Sheets("Master").Rows(i).Cut Destination:=Sheets(Sheet_Name).Range("A" & Sheet_Row_Num) My problem is that the .cut command takes 10…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-22T22:13:46.84+00:00
Eric B 1 Reputation point
0 answers

The "Save As" command has been removed from my .xlsm files.

The "Save As" command has been removed from my .xlsm files. It was removed when I started using developer to create macros. An even bigger problem is that the File Explorer will no longer let me change the name of ANY Excel file.

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,680 questions
asked 2020-12-18T22:44:34.487+00:00
Ellen Starbuck 1 Reputation point