Thanks for the various replies; some additional information
- this is an in-house application; it will not be sol
- we will be using Outlook 2000 for the near future; migration to a newer version of MS-Office is some time in the future. Probably tied into the purchase of new computer systems. Any support of multiple versions will be limited to the conversion / installation period. However we don't anticipate much support being required since we probably won't be accepting very much in the way of change requests (yeah, famous last words!
- Since I have to go thru a central purchasing department to obtain software, I'm not sure that we will be able to obtain VB 6.0. I will check into that, though - that did look like the best solution for us at this particular point.
Thanks
Erni
----- Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] wrote: ----
Ernie
Are you staying with Outlook 2000 or can you upgrade to Outlook 2003
Is this an in house app or do you sell it? (do you need to support multipl
versions of Outlook)
I would consider creating a properly constructed COM Add-In in VB.NET tha
uses the PIA for Outlook 2003. As an Outlook 2003 Add-In will avoid th
security prompt
For a list of articles on using Outlook from .NET see
http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.ht
For a plethora of automating Outlook with VBA, VB6, and VBScript see
http://www.outlookcode.com
To avoid the Outlook security prompts its generally easiest to create
properly constructed COM-Addin for Outlook 2003. There are other method
available for other versions of Outlook..
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...escomaddins.as
Further info can be found at
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/ol2003problems.ht http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.ht
The links I gave have samples of creating add-ins
Both of these are good articles to start with
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...laddinvbnet.as http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=30289
Also, be certain you have explicitly installed the Outlook PIAs
Hope this help
Ja
"Ernie" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messag
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We have an Outlook 2000 VBA application - 8 user forms, and about
thousand lines of code - that we wish to distribute. We know that we ca
password-protect the code, but that does not give us the desired level o
security
We plan to use VB.NET to create an executable file which we wil
distribute to our users. We have tested this, and it works. However, I'v
seen some references on various newsgroups indicating that this will no
work, and we need to use Visual Studio .NET instead. We do not have a cop
of Visual Studio .NET; it's expensive and we'd rather not purchase it if w
don't need it. Can someone clarifiy whether we do or do not need it Thanks
Erni