How to get a selection in the mailItem module using Outlook 2007 and VSTO C #

Question

I would like to select some text in the body of the letter, and then click on something (button on the toolbar, etc.)

Outlook.Application myApplication = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application; Outlook.Explorer myActiveExplorer = (Outlook.Explorer)myApplication.ActiveExplorer(); Outlook.Selection selection = myActiveExplorer.Selection; if (selection.Count == 1 && selection[1] is Outlook.MailItem) { Outlook.MailItem mail = (Outlook.MailItem)selection[1]; mail.Copy(); // currently opened mail Outlook.MailItem mailItem = (Outlook.MailItem) myApplication.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem); mailItem.Subject = mail.Subject; mailItem.To = mail.To; mailItem.Body = ????? // copy only selected text/images of user mailItem.Importance = Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceLow; mailItem.Display(true); } 

In mailITem.Body, I just want to insert the selected text / user image from the selected mail (// currently open mail). How can I implement it, I cannot find the paste method. What is the selected item and it is stored in the SQL Server database

Answer 1

outlook cannot receive the selected text in the body of the message, so convert Outlook to a text editor so you can follow 3 steps

 1. get the mail total body 2. use the word editor based on the **microsoft.office.Interop.word** dll 3.select the text and to store the any string 

the code first adds a dll link

 object oItem; Outlook.Application oApp=new Outlook.Application(); Outlook.Explorer oExp=oApp.ActiveExplorer(); Outlook.Selection oSel= oExp.Selection; for (i = 1; i <= oSel.Count; i++) { oItem = oSel[i]; Outlook.MailItem oMail = (Outlook.MailItem)oItem; Outlook.Inspector inspector = oMail.GetInspector; // Obtain the Word.Document object from the Inspector object Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document document = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document)inspector.WordEditor; mailItem.Body = document.Application.Selection.Text; } 

I think this is a complete help.