Grab info from attachment and put into SQL db

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manared

I'm very new to VBA, but have been programming with vb.net for several years

now. What I would like to do is grab an attachment (excel), suck out all the

information in that excel file and enter it into a SQL database. I have no

clue how to do that using VBA and Outlook. I'd love to be able to have this

done automatically when the email comes in, but if the user has to click a

button to go through the inbox to grab the specific emails/attachments,

that's alright. I just don't know how to get that attachment info to the

database.
 
There's no quick and easy answer, but I can guide you down the path.

First, this is a must read:

How to process incoming messages in Microsoft Outlook:

http://www.outlook-code.com/article.aspx?id=62

The next step is to become familiar with the Outlook Object Model:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb208225.aspx

Then basically you need to get a handle to the MailItem you want, and grab

the Attachment object you want from MailItem.Attachments collection and call

the Attachments.SaveAsFile method.

See the example here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219926.aspx

As for exporting the contents of the Excel attachment to SQL - that's not a

question for an Outlook forum! You're looking at ODBC/OLE DB/ADO.NET and the

Excel Object Model for that scenario.

Eric Legault - , MCDBA, MCTS (SharePoint programming, etc.)

"manared" wrote:


> I'm very new to VBA, but have been programming with vb.net for several years
> now. What I would like to do is grab an attachment (excel), suck out all the
> information in that excel file and enter it into a SQL database. I have no
> clue how to do that using VBA and Outlook. I'd love to be able to have this
> done automatically when the email comes in, but if the user has to click a
> button to go through the inbox to grab the specific emails/attachments,
> that's alright. I just don't know how to get that attachment info to the
> database.
 
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