DistList members are not resolved if the contact is not in default folder

[cbukeo]

Hello All,

I am developing an Outlook 2007 addin using VisualStudio 2008 and C#. My goal

is to create a distList inside a contacts folder which is not the default

contacts folder. When I say "default contacts folder" I refer to the one

inside "Personal Folders". I successfully create the distribution list and

add members to it. However I am not able to resolve the contact and as a

result the member name shows same as the member e-mail address.

When I investigate this using redemption I noticed that there is a high level

"IAddrBook" button which brings up a list of the contacts inside default

contacts folder. And then there is a "IMAPIFolder" button which brings up a

dialog box with many tabs. One of these tabs is "GetContentsTable" which

lists the contacts that are not resolved correctly. I believe I have spotted

the problem but I could not figure out how I can tell outlook object model to

resolve the distList members from the "IMAPIFolder".

My code looks like this (a bit simplified):

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

Outlook.Folder olFolder = olParentFolder.Folders.Add("AContactFolder",

OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

Outlook.DistListItem olDistList = olFolder.Items.Add(OlItemType.

olDistributionListItem);

Outlook.Recipient olRecipient = olFolder.Session.CreateRecipient(emailAddress)

;

foreach(emailAddress in emailAddressList)

{

if(olRecipient.Resolve())

{

olDistList.AddMember;

}

}

Thanks in advance

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

That folder must be used by OAB for the name resolution to work - set the

MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB property to true.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)

 

[cbukeo]

Thanks Dmitry,

Your suggestion and creating the distlist member with the name (instead of e-

mail address) solved the problem! For the benefit of the community fix is:

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

Outlook.Folder olFolder = olParentFolder.Folders.Add("AContactFolder",

OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

olFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB = true;

Outlook.DistListItem olDistList = olFolder.Items.Add(OlItemType.

olDistributionListItem);

foreach(contactName in contactNameList)

{

Outlook.Recipient olRecipient = olFolder.Session.CreateRecipient

(contactName);

if(olRecipient.Resolve())

{

olDistList.AddMember;

}

}