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How to develop my first outlook puglin?
I have a few decades professional experince in embedded systems, plus good self-taught AngaulrJs, PHP & MySQL
Now, I would like to code an Outlook plugin-in (which will communicate with my won ...
I suggest you to start here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins
I suggest you to start here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins
That looks excellent. Thank you very much!
With that alone, I can get started, and be confident that I am on the right track, as you are an MVP. Google had lost connced me that I needed a VSTO, so this has saved me going wrong.
As, I said, with that alone, I can start, and ask more quesiotns later, if needed. But, if you have time ...
My add-in should do the following, will that be possible? Allow composinng an email through a form, which builds it togther from the address book/contacts and standard form input, like edit boxes, cobo boxes, etc. It should then invoke an AJAX function to get some data from the server and use that in the email body, and finally send tailored emails to each recipient who was chosen from the contactss or added manually.
Is that acheivable, do you know? Thanks again :-)
With that alone, I can get started, and be confident that I am on the right track, as you are an MVP. Google had lost connced me that I needed a VSTO, so this has saved me going wrong.
As, I said, with that alone, I can start, and ask more quesiotns later, if needed. But, if you have time ...
My add-in should do the following, will that be possible? Allow composinng an email through a form, which builds it togther from the address book/contacts and standard form input, like edit boxes, cobo boxes, etc. It should then invoke an AJAX function to get some data from the server and use that in the email body, and finally send tailored emails to each recipient who was chosen from the contactss or added manually.
Is that acheivable, do you know? Thanks again :-)
I think you can by implementing so called add-in commands:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins/add-in-commands-for-outlook
As described in the article your add-in command can appear when composing an e-mail message. From there you could open a Task Pane rendering your Form and call the services you need.
- That sounds great.For anyone else reading this, there is lots of good info at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ and code samples at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/gallery/
- A very stupid question, I am sure - am I suppose dto use Visual Stduio? If so what project type do I choose?
As it happens I have an exstiging Angu;ar Js app which I just want to drop in. Do I just have to add a manifest to that?
And, how do I go about debugging it?