[AccessD] Automating Outlook

Doug Murphy dw-murphy at cox.net
Wed Jun 15 18:06:30 CDT 2011


Folks,

I am looking for a good reference or web site on coding against Outlook from
Access. My goto place has been Hellen Fedema's site, but I have run into
some challenges that her site does not cover. The challenge I face is that I
have a client who has several accounts set up in his outlook. He wants to
send email from his business account, which I did. He wants to put tasks in
a specific task list which I did. AND he wants to set schedule items from
Access in a particular calendar. I can do this on my development machine but
for some reason his machine puts the schedule items in the wrong calendar.
Trying to figure out what the object model of Outlook is has been
frustrating. It would seem that they would use nice collections so you would
go to an account, then item under account, then add an item. I ended up
trying to use the MAPI folders and am not hitting the right one for some
reason. It would be nice to have a nice object model to work from or at
least some guidance on how to get to a specific object.

Thanks.

Doug




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