Sometimes creating Outlook forms is a good alternative to developing Outlook add-ons. They can run scripts written in VBScript, an old fashioned language, but powerful enough. Another benefit of creating Outlook forms is that they do not need to be installed as extra software. Outlook forms can be deployed and shared on a Microsoft Exchange Server or as a file.

One problem that arises when you use Outlook forms as a template for e-mails is that if they contain scripting, the script is attached to the e-mail as a winmail.dat file. When the recipient opens the e-mail he will see the message “The item contain active content that cannot be displayed in the Reading Pane. Open the item to read its contents.”. This is annoying since users may suspect active content of being malicious and they can’t preview it.

This is a quick step by step example to create a new Outlook form to use as an e-mail template and remove the script in the send event. We set the UseTNEF MAPI property to false to achieve this result.

Creating the Outlook Form Template

1. Enable the developer options
2. Click “New/Choose Form”
3. Select “Message” from the “Standard Forms Library”
4. Write the content of your e-mail template
5. Go to the developer option or ribbon under Outlook 2007/2010 and click on “Design This Form”
6. Click on “View Code”
7. Click on “Script/Event Handler…” option
8. Select the “Send” event
9. Add the following code to remove the script

Function Item_Send()

   MsgBox "Item being sent without a winmail.dat file attached"
   Item.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062008-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/8582000B", False

End Function

10. Close the script editor
11. Click on “Publish/Publish Form As” and choose a name to be stored in the “Personal Forms Library”
12. It is saved now

Using the Outlook Form Template

1. Click “New/Choose From”
2. Go to the “Personal Forms Library” and select your created form
3. Complete the e-mail
4. Press “Send”

Voilà! The e-mail is sent without active content.

• Windows 8 Support
• Full Contacts Support
• Online (IMAP) Folder support

Request trial version here! http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/request-trial License: Some changes were introduced to the license for WLMailApi. Now, it is necessary to purchase a license for each developer that will use the library or by each product that will be developed using the library, taking into account whichever number is greater. For more details visit license page. http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/license Contact us to ask any commercial question or use the technical inquiries. http://www.nektra.com/contact

Change Log:

Fixes

• Fixed issue in which the function IToolbarButton::IsEnabled would always return true.
• Fixed issue in which account information would be lost when commiting a message.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would sometimes crash on startup.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would hang or crash when the main window or the Find dialog were closed during a search process.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would hang if the last window closed was a compose window and a draft was saved.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash if the last window closed was a compose window and a draft was saved.
• Fixed issue in which emails moved automatically by WLM did not trigger OnNewMessageInFolder events.
• Fixed issue in which the split button’s OnClick event would be triggered when one of its subbuttons was clicked.
• Fixed issue in which WLM v15.4.3508.1109 would not close if the last window closed was a compose window.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash if WLMailApi was compiled using C++ optimizations in Visual Studio 2005.
• Fixed issue in which the Find dialog would randomly fail finding messages by content.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash when its main window is closed with a search in progress.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would randomly crash while interacting with the Find dialog.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash or wlmail.exe process would not end when the last WLM window closed is a compose window.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would show an unknown error when deleting more than 7000 emails from the Deleted items folder.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would hang when trying to delete a message in the Outbox folder during an OnNewMessageInOutbox event.
• Fixed issue in which FolderManager::OnNewMessage event would not be triggered when a message is moved by a WLM rule to a folder created by the user.
• Fixed issue in which the Send and Receive window would get unresponsive when receiving messages.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash if closed while receiving more than 5000 emails at once.
• Fixed issue in which a deadlock would occur when ALL plugins listed in the registry fail to load.
• Fixed issue in which IMessage::Send() function would send emails from an invalid account.
• Fixed NktWLMailStore::IMessage::DeleteBody and NktWLMailStore::IMessage::InsertBody functions.
• Fixed issue in which undesired characters would appear in plain text emails after sending, receiving and moving operations.
• Fixed issue in which the UI would be unresponsive when moving big amounts of emails between folders.
• Fixed issue in which WLM 2009 would freeze after using the “Find” function.
• Fixed issue in which ribbons would randomly appear as a black bar when launching WLM 2011.
• Fixed issue in which WLM 2009 would crash when a “Compose” window is opened.
• Fixed issue in which WLMApi would not work if WLM was closed and quickly reopened.
• Fixed issue in which emails were received twice if WLM was closed quickly after the receiving procedure.
• Fixed issue in which duplicated “new message in outbox” notifications were fired to client plugins.
• Fixed issue where WLM crashed after removing an API object instance (e.g: TMAS Disable toolbar crashing).
• Fixed issue in which WLM showed emails that were not accessible.
• Fixed issue in which UI showed inconsistent data (unread email counts).
• Fixed issue in which WLM would receive an unexpected OnNewMessage event on startup.
• Fixed issue in which having an outer process would freeze the UI.
• Fixed issue in which OnNewMessage event would not be received in “Sent Items” folder.
• Fixed GetState and SetState malfunction concerning UNREAD flag.
• Fixed SaveBodyToFile function.
• Fixed bug in which the Send/Receive button would not work if the Outbox folder is not empty.
• Fixed TMessage::GetState, TMessage::SetState for states NKT_MSG_UNREAD, NKT_MSG_SUBMITTED, NKT_MSG_UNSENT, NKT_MSG_RECEIVED, NKT_MSG_REPLIED, NKT_MSG_FORWARDED, NKT_MSG_FLAGGED
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash when using the “Reply to Sender” function in Inbox
• Fixed issue in which the Outbox folder would be inaccessible after using the “Reply To Sender” function.
• Fixed issue in which UI would sometimes hang when calling Commit() on a message.
• Fixed issue in which UI would lockup when receiving emails and processing them on new message event.
• Fixed issue in which FolderSelectionChange event would not be fired in some contexts.
• Fixed issue in which UI would hang when using Search function or opening other folders (e.g: RSS).
• Fixed issue in which WLM would sometimes crash when opening folders.
• Fixed object cleanup at WLM window close.
• Fixed issue in which WLM would crash on close.

Added API functions

• TMsgWnd
  • Close
  • SendDraft
• IMessage
  • SetAccount
  • SaveToStream
  • LoadFromStream
  • AddAttachmentFromStream
  • SetSubject
  • SaveDraft
  • GetFirstBodyHeader
  • GetNextBodyHeader
  • GetAccount
  • SendAs
  • GetFilename
• IMsgWnd
  • SetTo
  • SetCc
  • SetBcc
  • SetSubject
    IWLMailApi
    *GetLastSelectedMailFolderID
• IToolbarButton
  • SetName
  • GetName
  • SetName
  • SetImageNormal

Added API events

• IFolderManagerEvents
  • OnFolderCreated
• IFolderManager
  • OnFolderDeleted
  • OnFolderMoved
• IWLMailApi
  • OnMessageDownloadStarted
  • OnMessageDownloadFinished

Added features

• Contacts API.
• ComposeMail ribbon customization.
• Support for Toggle buttons.
• Contact support (except contact removal)
• Builds on VS2005.

Demos

• New demo button icons.
• Fixed, reorganized and improved C# demo buttons.

Performance

• Improved ribbon buttons response time.
• Improved “Send & Receive” procedure speed.
• Improved performance when receiving and processing emails.

Request trial version here! http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/request-trial License: Some changes were introduced to the license for WLMailApi. Now, it is necessary to purchase a license for each developer that will use the library or by each product that will be developed using the library, taking into account whichever number is greater. For more details visit license page. http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/license Contact us to ask any commercial question or use the technical inquiries. http://www.nektra.com/contact

Windows Live Mail 2011 API

With our API you will be able to do amazing things and now we offer the opportunity of
purchasing the Source Code at a fraction of the cost. This guaranties that we are the owners of this source code and have years in this industry. We offer integration to Windows Live Mail 2011, including ribbon customization, adding new tabs and individual buttons, button groups. Access to Windows Live Mail 2011 message store, as well as account data, folders and email messages. Interaction with user, including change notifications on folder selection, folder creation and removing, new message selection. Integration to compose email window, sophisticated ribbon customization, access to text fields and body editor. You can use all of these features and many more via the outer process feature or by coding DLL plug-ins.

See more

Best Regards,

Business Development

Nektra announces the release of the new version of WLMailApi, the most used SDK designed to develop plugins in Windows Live Mail Desktop email client.

For more Screen Shots Click Here.

Change Log:

This will be released Released on September 8th  of 2011

• Fixed: Application Error on Vista SP2
• Fixed: Error when uninstalling WLMailApi, usually presented when trying to install newer versions.
• Fixed: NktWLMailApi::IWLMailApiEvents::OnSendButtonMsgWndClicked( [in] LONG msgWndId ) not properly triggers if only New Message Window is open.
• Fixed: NktWLMailApi::IMsgWnd::CancelSend()
• Fixed: WLMail Crash on close in specific enviroments
• Fixed: some other minor bugs
• Implemented NktWLMailApi::IToolbarButton::CreateSubSeparator( [out, retval] IToolbarButton ** newButton ) allowing to create separators in sub buttons menu.
• Implemented Comet new version “comet-3gamma33″ to support 64bit integers.
• Improved performance.

Request trial version here! http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/request-trial License: Some changes were introduced to the license for WLMailApi. Now, it is necessary to purchase a license for each developer that will use the library or by each product that will be developed using the library, taking into account whichever number is greater. For more details visit license page. http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/license Contact us to ask any commercial question or use the technical inquiries. http://www.nektra.com/contact

Windows Live Mail 2011 API

With our API you will be able to do amazing things and now we offer the opportunity of
purchasing the Source Code at a fraction of the cost. This guaranties that we are the owners of this source code and have years in this industry. We offer integration to Windows Live Mail 2011, including ribbon customization, adding new tabs and individual buttons, button groups. Access to Windows Live Mail 2011 message store, as well as account data, folders and email messages. Interaction with user, including change notifications on folder selection, folder creation and removing, new message selection. Integration to compose email window, sophisticated ribbon customization, access to text fields and body editor. You can use all of these features and many more via the outer process feature or by coding DLL plug-ins.

See more

Best Regards,

Business Development

Main features included in this version:

• Create toolbars and buttons.
• Create toolbars and buttons in message windows (Compose / Reply / Forward / Message detail).
• Access and modify folders and messages.
• Event notifying selected folder and message/s.
• Event notifying changes in local folders.
• Demo application and dll plugin developed in C# with source code.

Request trial version here! http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/request-trial License: Some changes were introduced to the license for WLMailApi. Now, it is necessary to purchase a license for each developer that will use the library or by each product that will be developed using the library, taking into account whichever number is greater. For more details visit license page. http://www.nektra.com/products/wlmailapi-windows-live-mail-api-plugin/license Contact us to ask any commercial question or use the technical inquiries. http://www.nektra.com/contact

Best Regards,

Business Development

Nektra has released the new WLMailApi v1.1.1, which has many more features & functions, this allows developers to create custom Windows Live Mail plug-ins.

Nektra Advanced Computing is glad to announce the release of the new WLMailApi version 1.1.1 which you can request a download by clicking here. This new version is an update of the official WLMailApi RTM version which has been released over two years ago.

Creating addons or plugins for Windows Live Mail Desktop® demands a deep knowledge of its internal behavior, it does not have any public Application Programming Interface.

Windows Live Mail is the desktop email client promoted by Microsoft for Windows XP®, Windows Vista® and Windows 7® as part of the Windows Live Essentials free software.

Contact us to ask any commercial question or use our forum for technical inquiries. For information about pricing or special demos please call 1-(310)237-6506.

The changes for this version are:

• SendMessage now works, but only for the default account.
• Resolved On click “create message” button Hang
• Resolved WLMail hang when I imported an account
• Resolved Hang when I drag and drop emails only if AVG is installed
• Resolved Moving messages through folders hang
• Added IMailAccount::GetMailAddress
• Moved all loading code to LiveMapiLoader
• Added GetButtonRect()
• Added Message::GetBodySize
• Changed folder enumeration to using ILMFolderEnumerator
• Fixed IMessage::GetBodySize
• Changed InternalRegisterMessageNotification folder limit from 30 to 20

Module Analyzer comes in our help to troubleshoot applications. Most of Internet Explorer performance issues are caused by add -ins. Most of the delays that users think that are Microsoft responsibility are caused by the addons loaded within the browser. The same happens with Explorer.exe: there are a large amount of Shell Extensions that slowdown all shell operations. Detecting this issues is very easy with Module Analyzer.

Module Analyzer shows all the COM objects instanced, files accessed and network urls from a dll point of view. It shows the first module in the call stack that is not one of the well known OS dlls.

Module Analyzer intercepts gethostbyname API to get network urls before they are translated to a fully-qualified url. For example, if you use a network monitor, when an application tries to get http://www.google.com it will show something like http://eze03s01-in-f104.1e100.net.

Module Analyzer also displays the time that each module consumes in API calls so you can see what modules is slowing down an application.

Screenshots:

New C# hooking console

Highlights

• Process / Module / Function panels
• Functions that are included in the database are displayed with full parameter information.
• Execution hooks (aka: ‘Add Exec Hook’) allow the user to add hooks when an application starts. It’s useful to debug an application that crashes at startup.
• Parameter information could be displayed before and after the function is called.
• Full Stack trace information.
• Function calls can be displayed grouped by thread.
• CLSID and IID are displayed in {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} format and with registration information:

• Structures parameters are expanded to show all their fields. This picture shows a call to Kernel32.FindFirstFileW with parameter _WIN32_FIND_DATAW expanded.

• Lots of Windows Messages are supported. LPARAM and WPARAM parameters of user32.dll functions DispatchMessage, PostMessage, SendMessage, PeekMessage and GetMessage are interpreted as the real data type that they are. Here a LVM_INSERTCOLUMNW (ListView_InsertColumnW macro for C++) is sent and the lParam is displayed as a tagLVCOLUMNW*:

In file $INSTDIRBinDatabaseFunctionTypes.xml you can find all the definitions. They are of the style:

<message value="442">

  <name>TB_SETBUTTONINFOA</name>

  <return value="">

    <returninfo>returns LRESULT in lResult</returninfo>

  </return>

  <wparam value="INT">

    <wname>iID</wname>

  </wparam>

  <lparam value="LPTBBUTTONINFO">

    <lname>

    </lname>

  </lparam>

</message>

This definition means that when a message 0×442 is called TB_SETBUTTONINFOA. Parameter WPARAM is a INT and LPARAM is a LPTBUTTONINFO. The code to convert one parameter to another type is very easy using Deviare:

pm = pm.CastTo("LPTBBUTTONINFO");

if(pm == null)

{

    // data type is not in the database

}

Adding other message definitions in that xml will change the C# message handling functions. This method can be used for any other function that has any variable parameter such as DeviceIoControl.

COM Interception

Now Deviare COM Spy is part of Deviare Package, so you can get it downloading Deviare. I’m not very happy with the application and I would like to make big changes in this area.

Deviare Services

Deviare is a very specific tool and it can take a special effort to get acquainted with its mechanism. We have a team of professionals that can help so Just ask.

• Examples of interception code
• Parameter retrieve and change
• Ad-hoc interception techniques for complex problems
• COM Interception (with or without the interface)
• Interception of undocumented API
• 64 bits interception
• Debug server with interception techniques
• Server monitoring
• Sever performance boost

More information in API Hook Services

Download

Request the package in Deviare download section.

Nektra has released the new WLMailApi v1.0.2, which has many more features & functions, this allows developers to create custom Windows Live Mail plug-ins.

Nektra Advanced Computing is glad to announce the release of the new WLMailApi version 1.0.2 which you can request a download by clicking here. This new version is an update of the official WLMailApi RTM version which has been released over 6 months ago.

Creating addons or plugins for Windows Live Mail Desktop® demands a deep knowledge of its internal behavior, it does not have any public Application Programming Interface.

Windows Live Mail is the desktop email client promoted by Microsoft for Windows XP®, Windows Vista® and Windows 7® as part of the Windows Live Essentials free software.

Contact us to ask any commercial question or use our forum for technical inquiries. For information about pricing or special demos please call 1-(310)237-6506.

The changes for this version are:

* Fixed: Memory leak when moving or deleting many messages left wlmail.exe process running after closing it
* Fixed: WLMail crashed when having an IMAP account
* Fixed: Getting a Toolbar object during the WLMailApiEvents::OnFolderSelectionChange event freezed WLMail
* Fixed the way WLMailApiAgent hooks the WLMail.exe process to avoid WLMailApiLoader.dll to be loaded in every process
* Implemented WLMailApiEvents::OnNewMessageInOutbox event that allows to modify and commit outgoing messages
* Implemented IWLMailApiEvents::OnSendButtonMsgWndClicked which is triggered when a new message window is set to be sent
* Implemented MsgWnd::GetTo(), GetCc(), GetBcc(), GetSubject(), SetTo(), SetCc(), SetBcc() and SetSubject()
* Added IMailAccountManager and IMailAccount interfaces to get the Default Account
* Implemented FolderManager::GetInboxFolder(), GetDraftFolder(), GetSentFolder(), GetJunkFolder(), GetDeletedFolder() for the Default Account
* Implemented Folder::IsInbox(), IsDraft(), IsSent(), IsJunk(), IsDeleted() functions for Default Account special folders
* Implemented FolderManager::GetOutboxFolder() and Folder::IsOutbox functions
* Added Unicode support to main API functions:
IFolderManager::CreateFolder() and RenameFolder()
IFolder::GetName(), Rename(), CreateFolder() and CreateMessage()
IMessage::GetSubject(), GetAllBody(), GetBody(), GetBodyText(), GetBodyDisplayName(), GetFilename() and SaveAsFile()
IMessage: For GetBodyProp() and SetBodyProp() functions, the message must be already encoded in Unicode

Note You must exit Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 before starting the following procedure. The names will be included in AutoComplete when you restart Outlook.

1. On the computer (Office 2003 or 2007) with the saved AutoComplete names, go to “drive: Documents and Settingsuser nameApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook”.
Note Depending on your operating system (Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000) or the folder options, the folder might be hidden. To view the files in this folder, do one of the following:
Windows 7
1. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab, and then, under Advanced settings, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
4. Uncheck hide extensions for known file types.
Windows Vista
5. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
6. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
7. Click the View tab, and then, under Advanced settings, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
8. Uncheck hide extensions for known file types.
Microsoft Windows XP
9. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
10. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
11. Click the View tab, and then, under Advanced settings, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
Microsoft Windows 2000
12. Double-click My Computer on your desktop.
13. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
14. Click the View tab, and then click Show hidden files and folders.
2. Right-click profile name.nk2, and then click Copy.
Tip You can copy the file to removable media, such as a USB key (Pen drive) or a CD (DVD), and then copy the file to the correct location on the other computer. Or you can attach the file to an e-mail message and send the message to yourself. On the new computer, open the attachment, and then save it to the correct location.
Note You must exit Outlook before starting the following procedure. The names will be included in AutoComplete when you restart Outlook.
3. On the Office 2010 where you want to migrate the AutoComplete feature too, Paste the NK2 file to drive:%user name%%appdata%MicrosoftOutlook
4. If prompted about replacing the existing file, click “yes”.

1. Note that the .nk2 file must have the same name as your current Outlook 2010 profile. By default, the profile name is “Outlook.” To check the profile name, follow these steps:

2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Double-click Mail.
4. In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles.
5. Click Start, and then click Run.
6. In the Open box, type outlook.exe /importnk2, and then click OK. This will import the .nk2 file into the Outlook 2010 profile.

Nektra Advanced Computing is developing a tool that will auto create an .NK2 file from Outlook Express (using OEAPI), Windows Mail (using OEAPI), Windows Live Mail (Using WLMAPI), an the export to Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 & Outlook 2010. We also offer a solution service from any legacy environment/platform to any new environment/platform. For information about pricing or demos please call 1-(310)237-6506.

Outlook Plugin Development

We have a team of experts developing plugins for Outlook. We have a wide experience using Outlook API and we are able to go beyond Outlook API when you need something that cannot be developed using the startdard API.
Our team works in US time, that’s what makes Nektra the best decision for US companies.
Our sales team can be contacted any time in our office in Callifornia (310) 237-6506.
For more information visit Outlook plugin development

Migration and Reverse Engineer Services

Nektra has a wide experience building ad-hoc migrations for applications that doesn’t provide importing and exporting mechanism. We have researched a large number of applications looking for undocumented interfaces to use for this purpose. A prove of these skills are our products and a big amount of articles researching different technologies.
We have a team of professionals that can help so Just ask.

Top Areas:

• Reverse engineer services
• Application virtualization
• API interception

Complete list of Nektra High Tech Services

Contact us to ask any commercial question or use our forum for technical inquiries.