d00_ape Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I?m about to create some kind of connection between one of my Applications to Outlook, to make the user of my app to use ?stuff? in Outlook. I think I?ve figured out that creating a add-in would bee one solution or? ? I?m a C++ programmer and almost never programmed VB. Do I really have to learn it. (VB to me sounds so simple and boring?) Anyway, if creating an add-in is the best solution ? where do I start. I can?t really find any articles good for me. All tips are welcomed ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 azcodemonkey Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 It depends on what version of Outlook your targeting for an add-in. If you target XP< you can use the Primary Interop Assemblies and use managed C++, C#, or VB.NET. If you are targeting 2000, I'd say use VB. I'm currently going through the pain of trying to use managed code with 2000, and at best it is flaky. In my experience, an add-in is going to consist of at least 2 projects in one solution; your add-in and your installer. If you're trying to use Outlook objects in your app, you can use whatever language you want as they are COM objects. Here's the place for Office dev info. The newsgroups are quite handy, too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understan...ok/default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I?m about to create some kind of connection between one of my Applications to Outlook, to make the user of my app to use ?stuff? in Outlook.
I think I?ve figured out that creating a add-in would bee one solution or? ?
I?m a C++ programmer and almost never programmed VB. Do I really have to learn it. (VB to me sounds so simple and boring?)
Anyway, if creating an add-in is the best solution ? where do I start. I can?t really find any articles good for me.
All tips are welcomed ? Thanks
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