The Outlook Appointment, Task and Journal forms include a drop-down calendar control on their main pages that allows the user to quickly pick a date. This built-in drop-down control is not available to programmers of legacy custom forms. (This is apparently one reason why certain pages on Outlook forms are not customizable.) Among the new
Using VBScript in Outlook Development
The code behind Microsoft Outlook forms is always written with the Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Engine, better known as VBScript, a small portable language, which is also used in web pages and standalone scripts. VBScript does not support the built-in Outlook constants, such as olFolderContact. Only the constants built into VBScript, such as vbYes, are supported. For
Add recurring travel appointments to recurring appointments
Add travel appointments before and after recurring appointments as recurring appointments. This code sample was written by Rory. I figured out how to create recurring appointments that match the recurrence pattern of my master appointment. Sub AddTravelToMeeting() Dim olItem As AppointmentItem, olItems As Outlook.Items Dim strTravelOut As String Dim strTravelBack As String Dim iTravelMinutesOut As
To automatically add recipients to Contacts in Outlook using VBA
One thing that Outlook cannot do by itself is automatically create new entries in Contacts for people you send messages to. This VBA code sample by Sue Mosher provides a way to add recipients automatically. To avoid the Outlook security prompts, it uses the Redemption library, which provides a wrapper for Extended MAPI that does