Hi

I am creating an outlook add-in in vb.net. I want to get the path of contact picture. I have successfully add contact picture in outlook programmatic ally but i want to check the path programmatic ally also, where picture is added(saved) in outlook and want to show this path on a label control.

I am using vb.net 2005 and outlook 2003.

Thanks

Hi,

Yes i have done this type project last year

here my code to that.

Methods

public static string GetContactPicturePath(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem contact)

        {

            return GetContactPicturePath(contact, System.IO.Path.GetTempPath());

        }

 

        public static string GetContactPicturePath(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem contact, string path)

        {

            string picturePath = "";

 

            if (contact.HasPicture)

            {

                foreach (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Attachment att in contact.Attachments)

                {

                    if (att.DisplayName == "ContactPicture.jpg")

                    {

                        try

                        {

                            picturePath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(path) + "\\Contact_" + contact.EntryID + ".jpg";

                            if (!System.IO.File.Exists(picturePath))

                                att.SaveAsFile(picturePath);

                        }

                        catch

                        {

                            picturePath = "";

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

 

            return picturePath;

        }

 

How to use this code

You just loop the every contact object and the do this

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem)value;

        string picturePath = OutlookProvider.GetContactPicturePath(contact);

if its help please make it answer

Thank you

hi,
Thanks for quick response and it's solved my problem.

Thank you

Regards
Dharmchand Dhingra