Disable control CTRL button when dragging items/folders - Outlook

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Nabil

Hi,

I'm currently developing an Outlook 2007 addin using VSTO. I don't want

users to be able to drag items/folders pressing the CTRL key at the same

time.

The default action when users drag items in the same store is to move the

items, if the user presses CTRL at the same time then the action changes to

COPY which I don't want.

Does anyone know how to disable this?

I've already had a look at disabling shortcut keys but didn't have any

effect. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179143.aspx

Thanks in advance

Nabil
 
You can't disable it, but you can cancel this action before it is committed.

If you trap the BeforeItemCopy/Paste events for the Explorer object, you can

set the Cancel argument to true. However, you can't do the same for a folder

move operation without trapping multiple Folders.FolderRemove events - and

even then you can't cancel it (although you can probably undo it in code).

There may be some other trickery you can do, but I doubt there's a clean

approach to solving this.

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

"Nabil" wrote:


> Hi,

> I'm currently developing an Outlook 2007 addin using VSTO. I don't want
> users to be able to drag items/folders pressing the CTRL key at the same
> time.

> The default action when users drag items in the same store is to move the
> items, if the user presses CTRL at the same time then the action changes to
> COPY which I don't want.

> Does anyone know how to disable this?

> I've already had a look at disabling shortcut keys but didn't have any
> effect. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179143.aspx

> Thanks in advance

> Nabil
 
RE: Disable control CTRL button when dragging items/folders - Outl

Thank you Eric,

I had already tried BeforeItemCopy before which doesn't fire when copying

items with the control key. I thought I have hit another dead end but then I

read the rest of your post and I tried BeforeItemPaste which I hadn't

considered before but works fantastically.

BeforeItemPaste fires consistently when you copy items with the Control Key

down so that is what I'm going to use.

I'll hack my way round the folder problem.

Once again, thank you very much for your help!

Nabil
 
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