I can see that my Outlook add-in is approved in the developer dashboard, and I also received an email 14 days ago from Microsoft saying that it was approved. But I can't find the add-in in the Office store. The release date was set to a date 30 days ago.
Is there something more that I need to do for the add-in to become available in the store?
It might be due to language restrictions.
For example, if you specify that your add-in is available in French but your Office365 is in English, then the french add-in is not displayed in the store.
Try to switch your Office 365 in the same language as your add-in.
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I'm looking to develop an Outlook Add-In, in which I receive a meeting room request and propose another room based upon conditions relating number of participants and size of the other rooms. I'm attempting to do this using a VSTO Add-In in C#.
My problem comes in the algorithm to determine the list of rooms and which room is smaller. From research, I can see that Outlook incorporates a number of RESTful APIs (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/api/calendar-rest-operations). However, I'm running into roadblocks in terms of how to call the APIs and how to get their data.
Is this possible in a VSTO add-in? If so, how could I get and store a list of the meeting rooms in Outlook using the REST APIs? I know there are other types of add-ins but I'm unfamiliar with Javascript and thus I'd like to stay with C#.
We recommend using the web add-in framework, instead of COM, for writing an Outlook add-in. The web add-in framework enables developers to:
Write once and have their add-in run across supported Outlook
clients enabling the add-in to reach millions of Outlook Desktop,
Outlook for Web, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook Mobile users.
Simplified deployment through the Office store, enabling users to acquire your add-in with a single click.
Access to user mailbox data via a rich REST based API set.
In addition to the benefits of the web add-in framework, Microsoft is not investing in new functionality on the COM platform. We understand COM add-ins may support different scenarios than the web add-in framework and thus are continually investing in the web add-in framework.
If you have any feedback or new functionality you would like to see available in the web add-in framework please let us know.
We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your request there.
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Prior to Lync 2013, there was a reference you could use for connecting Lync/Communicator to VBA:
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 API Type Library
This allowed you to write code such as:
Dim msgr As CommunicatorAPI.Messenger
Dim msg As CommunicatorAPI.IMessengerConversationWndAdvanced
You could then write code to manipulate Lync such as generating IMs, etc.
I have recently "updated" Office to 2013. However, all code such as the above no longer works and it appears the required dll is not included in the Lync 2013 installation. VBA complains as the reference is not found.
Downloading the Communicator 2007 SDK does not allow me to load the reference. I suspect I could rewrite all that code to treat this as a standard dll (maybe?).
What file do I need to reference with Lync 2013?
I did award a bounty to this question - but have since read 2 posts on MSDN Social that suggest MS have stopped supporting the automation PI for Lync.
The closest thing I could find is a quote from this page
"Lync 2013/SfB 2015 does not expose COM entry points that Excel can use.
You can create a wrapper around the Lync 2013 SDK and expose some COM objects that could be used from Excel."
I am attempting to create an add-in for outlook for where i work. The department in question use an in house built database application with a microsoft access front end built in vba.
Currently the team copy and paste information into the system. I have been tasked with creating an addin that will copy the necessary information such as
email address the email was sent from
Date & Time it was sent
message body
I have created the ribbon and have a button in place that currently displays "hello World".
Could anyone tell me how to get VB to read the information from the message? I have done some research on the internet but cannot find much information on this particular topic.
I would suggest you start here. This talks about how to do a lot of things with outlook using interop, which is the way you will need to work with it from a .Net addin.
How Do I... Outlook PIA Reference
I need to send instant messages automatically from excel. I know how to do it, but I have a problem with Lync API. I have Office 2010 and Lync 2013 and I cannot find in references in VBA editor anything related to Lync or Communicator. I went through all pages and I find almost impossible to solve this and find correct API to use. I downloaded from MSDN portal communicatorAPI.dll, but it is not working. Do you know how to solve this? Thank you a lot.
My company uses outlook as the email client and we login to an exchange server. Out address book (not individual contacts) has all the users connected to our company network.
Our company dont have IM ;-( .. I am thinking about developing an outlook plugin like Gmail's Gtalk . is this possible(technically)? Or how difficult it is? Will I be able to get the list of all users (from address book) who have opened their outlook so that I can show them in the online list?
Can I do this without a DB (just sent the message to the recepient and show them)?
Outlook development is new for me and the links in this question did not help me much (very confusing). Where can I get some basic tutorials to begin with?
Edit: I have worked with VBA in outlook. So if the above can achieved using VBA the it would be great ;-) Is that possible?
VBA is an old method of building Office plug-ins and has since been replaced with just a more straight forward VB/C# module coding method. VBA plugins from Office 2003 should work alright in Office 2007, but it's no longer the suggested method if you're looking at Office 2007 + 1.
If you're using Visual Studio 2005, look for information on the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Second Edition add-on on MSDN. If you're on Visual Studio 2008, the VSTO packages should come with the Professional editions (or higher) by default. It'll have all the templates for building add-ons for the Office suite. Going with this new direction of coding add-ons, anything should be possible.
I've personally never tried to make any sort of server/client solution, so I'm not helpful on that front, but I thought I'd put that information out there for you to consider in your planning stage of making the chat solution.
As a note, the non-individual (Exchange) address book is also known as the Global Address List (GAL).
Outlook 2010 includes instant messaging:
Use instant messaging services with Outlook
Microsoft Outlook can be used with several instant messaging services.
You can tell if your contacts are available for a real-time online
chat, audio and video conferencing, or file sharing.
Note Online status is available for any person whose instant
messaging e-mail address that you have added to your instant messaging
contact list. In addition, online status is shown for people using
Microsoft Office Communicator, regardless of whether they are on your
instant messaging contact list.