New Email Notification in Outlook

[celobateira]

Hi everyone,

I'm still struggling in Outlook 'add-ins' and now my quest is to execute some

methods everytime a new mail arrives.

I'm working in VB 2005.

I've been looking for the standard methods like:

OnConnection, OnDisconnection, OnStartupComplete

but How do I get the event for a new email?

Thanx

 

[JohnH]

NewMail event of Outlooks Application object. I have not worked with Add-ins but it will probably be something like this:

Private Sub outlookApp_NewMail() Handles outlookApp.NewMail
'check mails in inbox
End Sub

You have to check each mail in inbox and see if its UnRead property is True.

The Outlooks Application object I declared like this:

WithEvents outlookApp As Outlook.Application

As I understand it, with addins you get the reference to this object through the OnConnection methods 'application' parameter and assign local variable.

 

[celobateira]

thanx JohnH, I solved my problem with this:

[SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]WithEvents[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] colItems [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] Outlook.Items[/SIZE]

and the event:

[SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Private[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Sub[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] colItems_ItemAdd([/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]ByVal[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] Item [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Object[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]) [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Handles[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] colItems.ItemAdd[/SIZE]

 

[JohnH]

...and you referenced colItems with inbox Items collection?

 

[celobateira]

Yep, I forgot to mention that

colItems = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox).Items