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Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

5-Nov-12 21:46

Hello i've tried to build it!

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;
using Microsoft.Office.Core;

namespace PluginTapiProva1
{
    public partial class ThisAddIn
    {
        private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            // Custom context menu item event managed
            this.Application.ItemContextMenuDisplay += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationEvents_11_ItemContextMenuDisplayEventHandler(PacktMenuItem_ItemContextMenuDisplay);
        }

        // Context menu item adding procedure
        public void PacktMenuItem_ItemContextMenuDisplay(Microsoft.Office.Core.CommandBar PacktCommandBar, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Selection Selection)
        {
            // Commadbarpopup control to context menu item
            Office.CommandBarPopup callBarPopUp = (Office.CommandBarPopup)PacktCommandBar.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup, Type.Missing, "Custom Menu Item 1", PacktCommandBar.Controls.Count + 1, Type.Missing);
            // Set the tag value for the menu
            callBarPopUp.Tag = "PacktCustomMenuItem1";
            // Caption for the context menu item
            callBarPopUp.Caption = "TAPI Call 1";
            // Set it to visible
            callBarPopUp.Visible = true;

            Office.CommandBarButton callButton2 = (Office.CommandBarButton)callBarPopUp.Controls.Add(1, missing, missing, missing, true);
            callButton2.Caption = "Call xxxx!";
            callButton2.Click += new Office._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(Callxx);
        }

        public void Callxx(CommandBarButton Ctrl, ref bool CancelDefault)
        {
            // i want send selected number of a specific contact card how can i do it?
        }

        private void ThisAddIn_Shutdown(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        #region VSTO generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InternalStartup()
        {
            this.Startup += new System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Startup);
            this.Shutdown += new System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Shutdown);
        }
        
        #endregion
    }
}

And i'll get it:

http://i46.tinypic.com/29yox3n.jpg[^]

SQL

Ho can i put these numbers instead Call xxxx! To call function and pass number i've selected?
How can i load all numbers of selected contact to popup? And when i click it call a function passing the selected number?? Thanks! Thanks for any help!! :D And sorry for yesterday i was almost nervous....

Eddy Vluggen5-Nov-12 23:40

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

5-Nov-12 23:40

csharpcomeintome wrote:
Hello i've tried to build it!

Nice

csharpcomeintome wrote:
Ho can i put these numbers instead Call xxxx!

Where are the numbers stored? You'll need to get them from somewhere "before" displaying the xxx-value.

csharpcomeintome wrote:
And sorry for yesterday

Accepted, no problems here Smile | :)

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Cristian Capannini5-Nov-12 23:44

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

5-Nov-12 23:44

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Where are the numbers stored? You'll need to get them from somewhere "before" displaying the xxx-value.

Ehm contacts are stored into my personal folder. Such as "Contatti itech". I'm italian Big Grin | :-D

.
Thanks for any help.

Eddy Vluggen5-Nov-12 23:54

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

5-Nov-12 23:54

Not the contacts, but the replacement-phone numbers. If they're coming from an outlook-style address book, you'd have to look if the addin-framework supplies it's contents. Something like done in this article[^].

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Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 0:16

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 0:16

I'll print and study it. Thanks! Big Grin | :-D

Ehm i'm working hard on my tapi projet. I've created a chat/telephony client server using atapi julmar. And when done i'll sell it Big Grin | :-D

If you interested i will give you my code Big Grin | :-D

Eddy Vluggen6-Nov-12 0:23

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 0:23

csharpcomeintome wrote:
And when done i'll sell it . If you interested i will give you my code

Thanks

If you can afford the time, consider explaining the code and turning it into an article. That way more people could benefit from it. You can't use the article to "advertise" the solution, but you could explain the basics with a small sample project.

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Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 0:35

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 0:35

Ok. When i've finished it i'll try to explain in english it Big Grin | :-D

Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 4:57

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 4:57

I'm getting maaaad!! Frown | :(

Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 21:24

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 21:24

I've good idea. Ehm if i create a new region form into outlook that is visibile when i press a button in default ribbon?

Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 2:40

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 2:40

Ehm i saw that article. Very useful! Ehm

//In the German version of Outlook the default command bar
//is named "Standard". In other language versions of Outlook
//this name could differ, then you need to modify the next line
Office.CommandBar cmdBar = cmdBars["Standard"];

What's standard in italian and english versions?
Thanks!

Eddy Vluggen6-Nov-12 2:42

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 2:42

csharpcomeintome wrote:
What's standard in italian and english versions?

Dunno for Italian, but the only translation I can offer for English is "default".

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Cristian Capannini6-Nov-12 2:46

Re: Create a button in the context menu for each selected contact.

6-Nov-12 2:46

Unfortunately I can not do it ... Frown | :(

EIU something simple? Or I did not understand where to go in Outlook to see the contact display ....? Frown | :(

Eddy Vluggen6-Nov-12 3:04

Problem with Excel WorksheetFunction.Growth in c#

6-Nov-12 3:04

csharpcomeintome wrote:
Unfortunately I can not do it ...

Most examples deal with adding a new bar, not with "fetching" a reference to an existing one. I don't think that you can use that to get contacts' information, AFAIK it's a placeholder for buttons.

csharpcomeintome wrote:
EIU something simple?

Extending Outlook is not simple - another good reason to be wanting an article on the subject Smile | :)

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Ross R4-Nov-12 23:17

Ross R

4-Nov-12 23:17

I have a document level application for Excel 2010 using VSTO and c#. The following code is used to call the Excel Growth function.

double[] known_Ys, new_Ys, known_Xs, new_Xs;
   // Both of the known arrays have a length of 7
   // The new arrays have a length of 5
   // All arrays were loaded with valid double values
   // except new_Ys which will contain the result
Excel.WorksheetFunction wsf = Application.WorksheetFunction;
object results = wsf.Growth(known_Ys, known_Xs, new_Xs, System.Type.Missing);

While debugging, "results" show a type of 'System.Object[*]' which is a System.Object[] with an undefined lower boundary.

Looking at the variable, there is an array of double values that appear to be correct. The lower boundary is 1, and the upper boundary is 5.

When attempting to cast the results to either object[] or double[], I get an exception, "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Object[*]' to type 'System.Object[]' or 'double[]'.

I've also unsuccessfully tried to use the static methods of the Array class to copy the contents out.

Any thoughts on a resolution would be appreciated.

I don't want to use VBA code to resolve the problem if it can be avoided.

I've also considered a work-around, using a hidden worksheet to perform the calculations and copying the results into the c# application, but feel I should be able to handle it in the c# code.

I found the following work-around, unless someone has a better solution.

"results" inherits from System.Array.

System.Array resultsArray = results as System.Array;
if (resultsArray != null)
{
   int idx = resultsArray.GetLowerBound(0);
   for (int i = 0; i < new_Ys.Length; i++)
   {
      new_Ys[i] = (double)resultsArray.GetValue(idx);
      idx++;
   }
   return new_Ys;
}
else
{
   // Handle exception.
   return null;
}

The conflict is that c# vectors (one dimensional arrays) are always zero based, so explicit casts won't work.

modified 5-Nov-12 6:46am.

avoid double click

neeraj@max4-Nov-12 20:06

4-Nov-12 20:06

i have two panel in ma form. panel1 with button1 on it at location let say x:10,y:10 and panel2 with button 2 on it at location x:10,y:10.

what actually button1 do:- it hide panel1 and shows panel2 at the same location.

but whenever i click on button1 twice after completion its process it fire button2 click event,

plz help me ASAP

OriginalGriff4-Nov-12 20:34

OriginalGriff

4-Nov-12 20:34

The problem is that the button click event is happening almost immediately - so the second "click" is going to the correct place - the control at that position on the "new" panel. And that will generate a click event for the new button because that is exactly what should happen.
If you want to stop it, then
1) Create a class level variable:

private DateTime lastSwap = DateTime.Now;

2) In the Button1 click handler, set it:

lastSwap = DateTime.Now;

And then swap panels.
3) In the Button2 click handler, check it and ignore if too soon:

if (DateTime.Now < lastSwap.AddMilliseconds(500)) return;

You can change the 500 to any value you think reasonable - 500 provides half a second.

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neeraj@max4-Nov-12 21:09

4-Nov-12 21:09

hello,

thaks for your quick response...
code is working properly... but it is impossible to implement on big application where there are mre den 20,25 panels and every control takes diff diff tym to execute.

hope you get my point.

thanks once again.

J4amieC4-Nov-12 21:27

4-Nov-12 21:27

neeraj@max wrote:
are mre den

neeraj@max wrote:
takes diff diff tym

neeraj@max wrote:
hope you get my point.

No, not really. Try cutting out the childish txtspk and talk like a grown up.

neeraj@max4-Nov-12 23:25

4-Nov-12 23:25

hello,

thanks for your quick response...
code is working properly... but it is impossible to implement on big application where there are more then 20,25 panels and every control takes different time to execute.

hope you are getting my point.

thanks once again.

Pete O'Hanlon5-Nov-12 0:30

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5-Nov-12 0:30

It's not impossible to implement, it's just going to take a while.

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J4amieC5-Nov-12 1:27

5-Nov-12 1:27

You're missing the point. As a programmer, when you find a solution to the problem, but you have 25 problems - you dont implement the solution 25 times. You implement it once and re-use it 25 times.

Think of it this way - if you have 25 customers, you dont write 25 different classes to represent each customer, you implement once class called "Customer" and reuse it 25 times. The same thing applies here, you need a solution which stops a button being clicked within 500ms of another button (personally I think this is an awful solution to your original problem, but hey if it works for you go with it). Write a class which exhibits this behaviour and attach it to every button which requires it.

neeraj@max5-Nov-12 1:43

5-Nov-12 1:43

@J4amieC

thanks for your 25 customer and single solution example...

but this solution is suitable for 2,3 panel only becuase
diffrent buttons have diffrent tasks and process time so we cant fix the 500ms for every event.

anyways i am looking for more suitable solution.....

if you come to know any, let me know.

J4amieC5-Nov-12 1:52

5-Nov-12 1:52

The 500ms had nothing to do with whatever task the button does, it had to do with stopping a quick double click operating a button which appears after the first click. It should not matter what the second button does!

Anyway your original question asked about 2 panels, and you got a solution to the question as stated. Ask the right question, and you'll get the right answer.

neeraj@max5-Nov-12 19:34

5-Nov-12 19:34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpojl4XMweo&feature=g-upl

above link will explain you my problem very clearly.

J4amieC5-Nov-12 21:43