Office Programming

Microsoft Office document creation and update is one of the hot topic in any project. Because organizations require them very often. So it is the duty of every software engineer to have a expetise on those technologies which are related to this requirement.

I recommend reading about these.

Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Microsoft Word Object Library
Microsoft Excel Object Library

Just search these on the google and read the wonderful information on the internet about these.

BCC in VSTO for outlook

It is interesting to know that MailItem.BCC can be assigned any value but it does not seem to work. There is an alternative approach for this which I used. It is as follows:

Outlook.Recipient rcp = ((Outlook.MailItem)Item).Recipients.Add("shujaatned@gmail.com");
rcp.Type = 3;
((Outlook.MailItem)Item).Recipients.ResolveAll();


Here Outlook.Recipient.Type = 3 means that this a BCC recipient.

This took me all day to find out. But I dont know why MailItem.BCC does not work.