Loading your OL addin without restarting OL Rahul Chandran 10/7/2008 5:13:02 PM I just downloaded the goto meeting addin and that install program installs their addin adds toolbars to OL without requiring me to restart My outlook any clue on how this is happening How do you get OL to load your addin post startup Thanks

Re: Loading your OL addin without restarting OL "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 10/7/2008 5:26:32 PM It's not good practice to ever install an Outlook addin when Outlook is running, no matter what the installer allows. If an addin is installed and registered then code can get a reference to the addin from the ComAddins collection and once it has the reference it can set the Connect property to True to force loading the addin. -- 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 "Rahul Chandran" <rchandran[ at ]meetingsense.com> wrote in message news:6E47B14B-6F94-4882-B028-4D914DFA5123[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I just downloaded the goto meeting addin and that install program installs > their addin adds toolbars to OL without requiring me to restart My outlook > any clue on how this is happening > How do you get OL to load your addin post startup > > Thanks

Re: Loading your OL addin without restarting OL Rahul Chandran 10/7/2008 6:44:01 PM Ken thanks for answering m question. I just have a quick follow up How will the addin show up in the com-addins collection of Outlook when OL has not loaded it yet the goto meetings behaviour is really interesting. you have OL running . you install the addin and voila toolbars appear in OL without restarting OL SO i guess I am a litte confused , youre saying my installation code should get the com -addins collection from the OL object model and even though its not been loaded yet , it will show up ? then call connect IS that correct "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > It's not good practice to ever install an Outlook addin when Outlook is > running, no matter what the installer allows. If an addin is installed and > registered then code can get a reference to the addin from the ComAddins > collection and once it has the reference it can set the Connect property to > True to force loading the addin. > > -- > 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 > > > "Rahul Chandran" <rchandran[ at ]meetingsense.com> wrote in message > news:6E47B14B-6F94-4882-B028-4D914DFA5123[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I just downloaded the goto meeting addin and that install program installs > > their addin adds toolbars to OL without requiring me to restart My outlook > > any clue on how this is happening > > How do you get OL to load your addin post startup > > > > Thanks > >

Re: Loading your OL addin without restarting OL "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 10/7/2008 8:32:02 PM I don't know exactly what that addin or installer is doing, but I can guess. If the installer installs the addin that registers it in either HKCU or HKLM as an Outlook addin. Then if it has something like a custom action that is called which checks to see if an Outlook session is running and if so it gets the COMAddins collection. That should read all registered addins in both HKCU and HKLM. Then the action could set Connect on the addin. As I said that's all guesswork, but it most definitely is not a best practice to have Outlook running when an addin is being installed. If this is something you plan to implement for an addin of yours I'd highly recommend that you reconsider your plan. -- 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 "Rahul Chandran" <rchandran[ at ]meetingsense.com> wrote in message news:DB1509C1-2468-4D93-B7A8-06CE82117EB6[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Ken thanks for answering m question. I just have a quick follow up > > How will the addin show up in the com-addins collection of Outlook when OL > has not loaded it yet > > the goto meetings behaviour is really interesting. you have OL running . > you > install the addin > and voila toolbars appear in OL without restarting OL > > SO i guess I am a litte confused , youre saying my installation code > should > get the com -addins collection from the OL object model and even though > its > not been loaded yet , it will show up ? > then call connect > > IS that correct