How to catch the click event of ASPX page in Outlook

Ravi · Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Hi,

My requirement is to refresh the folder structure in the Outlook on click of
a button on a ASPX form.
The webpage is at the web server and displayed within the outlook trough a
compatible outlook Add-in.
Is it possible to catch the Button click event of the web form inside the
Outlook so that the folder structure could be refresh with the data displayed
in the webpage?

Thanks in advance for your help and time.

Ravi

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Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 405

Outlook code can't respond directly to a click in server-side ASPX code.
You'd have to find a way to notify the Outlook code that the click had
occurred. Perhaps a Web service or something like that?

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Ravi" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> My requirement is to refresh the folder structure in the Outlook on click
> of
> a button on a ASPX form.
> The webpage is at the web server and displayed within the outlook trough a
> compatible outlook Add-in.
> Is it possible to catch the Button click event of the web form inside the
> Outlook so that the folder structure could be refresh with the data
> displayed
> in the webpage?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and time.
>
> Ravi

Neetu · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

We Could find out about the how to send alerts from webserice to outlook.
we are planning to call a webservice at aspx page button event handler.
webservice will send a required response to outllook. for this we need a
listener at outlook end which can be a alert configured at client machines.

we are not in possible to create a custom alert programmatically inside
addin outlook code.
so please suggest ways to create custom alerts in outlook addin and access
those events.

Thanks In advance.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> Outlook code can't respond directly to a click in server-side ASPX code.
> You'd have to find a way to notify the Outlook code that the click had
> occurred. Perhaps a Web service or something like that?
>
> --
> Ken Slovak
> [MVP - Outlook]
> http://www.slovaktech.com
> Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
> Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
> http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
>
>
> "Ravi" wrote in message
> @microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > My requirement is to refresh the folder structure in the Outlook on click
> > of
> > a button on a ASPX form.
> > The webpage is at the web server and displayed within the outlook trough a
> > compatible outlook Add-in.
> > Is it possible to catch the Button click event of the web form inside the
> > Outlook so that the folder structure could be refresh with the data
> > displayed
> > in the webpage?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help and time.
> >
> > Ravi
>
>

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 405

If the code is running on the client machine you can iterate the
Outlook.Application.COMAddIns collection. That has all addins. You can
locate yours and reference it. This little snippet assumes using VB.NET, it
would be different using C#:

' In Connect class:

Private addInInstance As Office.COMAddIn = Nothing

' In OnConnection() event handler

addInInstance = TryCast(addInInst, Office.COMAddIn)
addInInstance.Object = Me ' critical setting

' Public Sub that can be called from outside the addin
Public Sub CalledFromOutside()
' do whatever you want
End Sub

Your external code that works with the Web service can then get your COM
addin from the Outlook.Application.COMAddIns collection and use code like
this to call that CalledFromOutside() method:

Dim myAddin As Office.COMAddIn = olApp.COMAddIns.Item("myAddin.Connect")
If (myAddin IsNot Nothing) Then
myAddin.Object.CalledFromOutside()
End If

That CalledFromOutside() method can take arguments like a flag or whatever.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Neetu" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> Hello Ken,
>
> Thanks for your valuable suggestion.
>
> We Could find out about the how to send alerts from webserice to outlook.
> we are planning to call a webservice at aspx page button event handler.
> webservice will send a required response to outllook. for this we need a
> listener at outlook end which can be a alert configured at client
> machines.
>
> we are not in possible to create a custom alert programmatically inside
> addin outlook code.
> so please suggest ways to create custom alerts in outlook addin and access
> those events.
>
> Thanks In advance.

Neetu · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

in our case, outside code is inside aspx page hosted inside outlook, which
gets open on click of addin folder in folder struture of outlook.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> If the code is running on the client machine you can iterate the
> Outlook.Application.COMAddIns collection. That has all addins. You can
> locate yours and reference it. This little snippet assumes using VB.NET, it
> would be different using C#:
>
> ' In Connect class:
>
> Private addInInstance As Office.COMAddIn = Nothing
>
> ' In OnConnection() event handler
>
> addInInstance = TryCast(addInInst, Office.COMAddIn)
> addInInstance.Object = Me ' critical setting
>
> ' Public Sub that can be called from outside the addin
> Public Sub CalledFromOutside()
> ' do whatever you want
> End Sub
>
> Your external code that works with the Web service can then get your COM
> addin from the Outlook.Application.COMAddIns collection and use code like
> this to call that CalledFromOutside() method:
>
> Dim myAddin As Office.COMAddIn = olApp.COMAddIns.Item("myAddin.Connect")
> If (myAddin IsNot Nothing) Then
> myAddin.Object.CalledFromOutside()
> End If
>
> That CalledFromOutside() method can take arguments like a flag or whatever.
>
> --
> Ken Slovak
> [MVP - Outlook]
> http://www.slovaktech.com
> Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
> Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
> http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
>
>
> "Neetu" wrote in message
> @microsoft.com...
> > Hello Ken,
> >
> > Thanks for your valuable suggestion.
> >
> > We Could find out about the how to send alerts from webserice to outlook.
> > we are planning to call a webservice at aspx page button event handler.
> > webservice will send a required response to outllook. for this we need a
> > listener at outlook end which can be a alert configured at client
> > machines.
> >
> > we are not in possible to create a custom alert programmatically inside
> > addin outlook code.
> > so please suggest ways to create custom alerts in outlook addin and access
> > those events.
> >
> > Thanks In advance.
>
>

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 405

Is there a question there?

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Neetu" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> in our case, outside code is inside aspx page hosted inside outlook, which
> gets open on click of addin folder in folder struture of outlook.

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