Friday, August 12, 2005

Integrating Visual Studio.net with Outlook

I have been troubling myself on how to quickly bring up a new outlook task when in Visual Studio 2003. There are automation samples that show how to sync up tasks, even add new ones to outlook. However, I wanted to be able to set more options then just a title for the task.

Then I remembered External Tools.

1. Select Tools - External Tools
2. Click Add with the following properties

  • Title = Outlook Tasks
  • Command = Location of Outlook Executable
  • Arguments = /c ipm.task


3. Select OK. This should now be in your menu under tools.

For more information on outlook switches go here:
Outlook 2003 Command Line Switches

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