Get account information

This topic takes as an input argument a trusted Outlook Application object, and uses the Account object to display the details of each account that is available for the current Outlook profile.

Example

The following code examples contain the DisplayAccountInformation method of the Sample class, implemented as part of an Outlook add-in project. Each project adds a reference to the Outlook Primary Interop Assembly, which is based on the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace.

If you use Visual Studio to test this code example, you must first add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Object Library component and specify the Outlook variable when you import the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace. The Imports or using statement must not occur directly before the functions in the code example but must be added before the public Class declaration. The following lines of code show how to do the import and assignment in Visual Basic and C#.

Imports Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

The following is the Visual Basic code example, followed by the C# code example.

Imports Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

Namespace OutlookAddIn2
    Class Sample
        Shared Sub DisplayAccountInformation(ByVal application As Outlook.Application)

            ' The Namespace Object (Session) has a collection of accounts.
            Dim accounts As Outlook.Accounts = application.Session.Accounts

            ' Concatenate a message with information about all accounts.
            Dim builder As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder()

            ' Loop over all accounts and print detail account information.
            ' All properties of the Account object are read-only.
            Dim account As Outlook.Account
            For Each account In accounts

                ' The DisplayName property represents the friendly name of the account.
                builder.AppendFormat("DisplayName: {0}" & vbNewLine, account.DisplayName)

                ' The UserName property provides an account-based context to determine identity.
                builder.AppendFormat("UserName: {0}" & vbNewLine, account.UserName)

                ' The SmtpAddress property provides the SMTP address for the account.
                builder.AppendFormat("SmtpAddress: {0}" & vbNewLine, account.SmtpAddress)

                ' The AccountType property indicates the type of the account.
                builder.Append("AccountType: ")
                Select Case (account.AccountType)

                    Case Outlook.OlAccountType.olExchange
                        builder.AppendLine("Exchange")


                    Case Outlook.OlAccountType.olHttp
                        builder.AppendLine("Http")


                    Case Outlook.OlAccountType.olImap
                        builder.AppendLine("Imap")


                    Case Outlook.OlAccountType.olOtherAccount
                        builder.AppendLine("Other")


                    Case Outlook.OlAccountType.olPop3
                        builder.AppendLine("Pop3")


                End Select

                builder.AppendLine()
            Next


            ' Display the account information.
            Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(builder.ToString())
        End Sub


    End Class
End Namespace

using System;
using System.Text;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

namespace OutlookAddIn1
{
    class Sample
    {
        public static void DisplayAccountInformation(Outlook.Application application)
        {

            // The Namespace Object (Session) has a collection of accounts.
            Outlook.Accounts accounts = application.Session.Accounts;

            // Concatenate a message with information about all accounts.
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

            // Loop over all accounts and print detail account information.
            // All properties of the Account object are read-only.
            foreach (Outlook.Account account in accounts)
            {

                // The DisplayName property represents the friendly name of the account.
                builder.AppendFormat("DisplayName: {0}\n", account.DisplayName);

                // The UserName property provides an account-based context to determine identity.
                builder.AppendFormat("UserName: {0}\n", account.UserName);

                // The SmtpAddress property provides the SMTP address for the account.
                builder.AppendFormat("SmtpAddress: {0}\n", account.SmtpAddress);

                // The AccountType property indicates the type of the account.
                builder.Append("AccountType: ");
                switch (account.AccountType)
                {

                    case Outlook.OlAccountType.olExchange:
                        builder.AppendLine("Exchange");
                        break;

                    case Outlook.OlAccountType.olHttp:
                        builder.AppendLine("Http");
                        break;

                    case Outlook.OlAccountType.olImap:
                        builder.AppendLine("Imap");
                        break;

                    case Outlook.OlAccountType.olOtherAccount:
                        builder.AppendLine("Other");
                        break;

                    case Outlook.OlAccountType.olPop3:
                        builder.AppendLine("Pop3");
                        break;
                }

                builder.AppendLine();
            }

            // Display the account information.
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(builder.ToString());
        }
    }
}

See also

• Accounts