VBA Outlook contact save

[dgillz]

I am trying to run some VBA when a contact is saved in outlook, but I cannot figure out how to make such an event fire.

Any ideas out there?

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[asjeff]

Hi dgillz

Outlook is a bit of a pain to code in but what you will have to do is to create a wrapper for Explorer & Inspector events, create a WithEvents Variable e.g. "Private WithEvents aContact As Outlook.ContactItem" and you should be able to access the events that way. By the sounds of it you might want to look at the MAPIFolder.Items.ItemChange event for the contact folder.

The other problem is that if you are doing it in VBA is that Outlook .DAT & .OTM weren't really designed to be deployed to to other users - you have to mess around with macro security to get it to load properly. You might possibly want to think about a COM addin of some sort.

A good site for advanced Outlook coding tips is

http://www.outlookcode.com.

Regards

Asjeff