Trap email send event

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Mark B

VSTO C#, OL2007

I want to remove the phrase "My Special Sentence" from every email after it

gets sent and appears in the Sent Items folder.

I started, finding the following code on the internet but being new to C#

and VSTO I have had some difficulties with syntax errors with it.

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

defaultFolder =

this.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);

defaultFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(SentItems_ItemAdd);

Can anyone help me with some code to remove the phrase "My Special Sentence"

from every email after it gets sent and appears in the Sent Items folder.

TIA
 
The way that code is written you would get that event handler garbage

collected and fail to fire at some point. Declare and instantiate an Items

collection at module or class level and hook your ItemAdd() handler to that

so your handler doesn't get garbage collected.

In ItemAdd() you are passed an Item object. Cast that to a MailItem object

and then use string replace function to get rid of the unwanted text.

Something like this would do it, add exception handling of course:

Outlook.Mailitem mail = (Outlook.MailItem)Item;

string newBody = mail.Body.Replace("My Special Sentence", "");

mail.Body = newBody;

If you are getting syntax errors be specific on what and where, if you want

help with them.

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> VSTO C#, OL2007

> I want to remove the phrase "My Special Sentence" from every email after
> it gets sent and appears in the Sent Items folder.

> I started, finding the following code on the internet but being new to C#
> and VSTO I have had some difficulties with syntax errors with it.

> using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
> defaultFolder =
> this.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);
> defaultFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(SentItems_ItemAdd);

> Can anyone help me with some code to remove the phrase "My Special
> Sentence" from every email after it gets sent and appears in the Sent
> Items folder.

> TIA
 
From ThisAddIn_Startup I call mAddSentItemsHandler:

public void mAddSentItemsHandler()

{

Outlook.MAPIFolder sentItemsFolder =

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);

sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler);

}

public void Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler()

{

MessageBox.Show("Sent");

}

I get the following error with a red underline under

Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler in the mAddSentItemsHandler method:

Error 7 No overload for 'Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler' matches

delegate 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler'

C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\MyAddin\ThisAddIn.cs 325 46 MyAddin
<kenslovak@mvps.org> wrote in message

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> The way that code is written you would get that event handler garbage
> collected and fail to fire at some point. Declare and instantiate an Items
> collection at module or class level and hook your ItemAdd() handler to
> that so your handler doesn't get garbage collected.

> In ItemAdd() you are passed an Item object. Cast that to a MailItem object
> and then use string replace function to get rid of the unwanted text.
> Something like this would do it, add exception handling of course:

> Outlook.Mailitem mail = (Outlook.MailItem)Item;
> string newBody = mail.Body.Replace("My Special Sentence", "");
> mail.Body = newBody;

> If you are getting syntax errors be specific on what and where, if you
> want help with them.

> >

>

> "Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message
> news:Ok$KH$bQKHA.508@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > VSTO C#, OL2007
>

>> I want to remove the phrase "My Special Sentence" from every email after
> > it gets sent and appears in the Sent Items folder.
>

>> I started, finding the following code on the internet but being new to C#
> > and VSTO I have had some difficulties with syntax errors with it.
>

>> using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
> > defaultFolder =
> > this.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);
> > defaultFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new
> > Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(SentItems_ItemAdd);
>

>> Can anyone help me with some code to remove the phrase "My Special
> > Sentence" from every email after it gets sent and appears in the Sent
> > Items folder.
>

>> TIA
>
 
If you are going to add event handlers you need to match their signatures

with the signature of the event you are planning to handle.

If you were to look in the Object Browser for the signature for the

ItemAdd() event you would see that there's an object passed to the handler

to tell it what was added.

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> From ThisAddIn_Startup I call mAddSentItemsHandler:

> public void mAddSentItemsHandler()
> {

> Outlook.MAPIFolder sentItemsFolder =
> Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);
> sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler);
> }

> public void Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler()
> {
> MessageBox.Show("Sent");
> }

> I get the following error with a red underline under
> Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler in the mAddSentItemsHandler method:

> Error 7 No overload for 'Application_SentItemsAdditionHandler' matches
> delegate
> 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler'
> C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\MyAddin\ThisAddIn.cs 325 46 MyAddin
 
Getting there I hope... :

This seems to compile fine:

public void mFolderAdditionsHandler()

{

//Add Sent Items Folder Watch

Outlook.MAPIFolder sentItemsFolder =

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);

sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);

//Add Deleted Items Folder Watch

Outlook.MAPIFolder deletedItemsFolder =

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderDeletedItems);

sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);

}

As does this:

public void Items_ItemAdd(object Item)

{

MessageBox.Show("Sent or Deleted");

}

However when I send or delete in Outlook, no message box pops up. I've

walked through mFolderAdditionsHandler at runtime with no errors.
 
Typo, mFolderAdditionsHandler should read with

deletedItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd as below:

public void mFolderAdditionsHandler()

{

//mb

//Add Sent Items Folder Watch

Outlook.MAPIFolder sentItemsFolder =

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);

sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);

//Add Deleted Items Folder Watch

Outlook.MAPIFolder deletedItemsFolder =

Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderDeletedItems);

deletedItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);

}
 
I've said this previously, and I'll repeat it again one last time.

You need to declare an Items collection at class level for your event

handler.

One Items object for each folder. Your non-declared Items collection is

going out of scope and being garbage collected once your event adder

procedure ends.

Also, using compound dot operators with COM objects leads to implicit

objects being created that you have no control over.

You need something like this:

// class level

Outlook.Items sentItems = null;

Outlook.Items deletedItems = null;

public void mFolderAdditionsHandler()

{

Outlook.MAPIFolder folder = // get a folder

sentItems = folder.Items

// now assign handler to the collection, repeat for other Items

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> Typo, mFolderAdditionsHandler should read with
> deletedItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd as below:

> public void mFolderAdditionsHandler()
> {

> //mb
> //Add Sent Items Folder Watch
> Outlook.MAPIFolder sentItemsFolder =
> Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);
> sentItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);

> //Add Deleted Items Folder Watch
> Outlook.MAPIFolder deletedItemsFolder =
> Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderDeletedItems);
> deletedItemsFolder.Items.ItemAdd += new
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(Items_ItemAdd);
> }
 
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