Outlook 2000 vs. 2002 vs. 2003 + vb6 addin

Hi there,

i wrote an addin in visual basic 6 prof. for outlook -
on the development-system is outlook 2003 installed
and everything works fine (icons, commandbar-buttons and
a property page).

moving the dll and the ocx to a new system with
same outlook (2003) shows the property page
but *not* the commandbar-icons...

another test on a outlook 2002 system fails: *no*
commandbar and *no* property page....

...so iam now thinking about the compatibility of
outlook 2002/2003 and what i should do to
get it working with ol 2000/2002/2003 without
any strange things - is there any special thing i
have to care about?

many thanks in advance,

/Marc

Develop on a system with the oldest version of Outlook you intend to support
if you intend to use early binding and not just use Object for everything.
For an add and the related OCX you must register the addin in HKCU or HKLM
and for the OCX you must register it for it to work on other systems.

Without seeing code I have no idea why the commandbars weren't there on
other systems. I develop usually on an Outlook 2000 system and haven't had
any problems with commandbars not showing up, even when I develop on an
Outlook 2003 system.

-- 
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
 http://www.**--****.com/ 
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Hi Ken,

thanks for your quick response. Ill try it with Outlook 2000 and
then installing it with 2002/2003. maybe thats it already, i dont
know actually :-)

however, here is a snippet of my creation of the commandbar....

many thanks again,

/Marc

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Friend Sub InitHandler(olApp As Outlook.Application, strProgID As String)

    'Get the Application object for Outlook
    Set oApp = Application

    'Customize the Outlook Menu structure and toolbar
    Set oCBs = oApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars

    Set oMenuBar = oCBs.Add("Out-of-Office", 1, False, True)

    oMenuBar.Visible = True

    Set obutton1 = oMenuBar.Controls.Add(msoControlButton, , , , True)

    obutton1.Caption = "Out of Office aktivieren"
    obutton1.Tag = "oooaktivieren"
    obutton1.ToolTipText = "Out of Office aktivieren"
    obutton1.FaceId = 5653
    obutton1.Style = msoButtonIcon
    obutton1.Enabled = True
    obutton1.OnAction = "<!" & strProgID & ">"

[...]

end sub

Hello Ken,

you where right... developed/compiled on a OL2000 machine works on
2000, 2002 and 2003 without any problems.

iam still thinking why this was not written in any of my "programming
for outlook" - books.

many thanks for your help,

/Marc

It's pretty common knowledge and has been mentioned in these groups many
times.

-- 
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
 http://www.**--****.com/ 
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
 http://www.**--****.com/