Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0)
How to: Create Custom Folder Items

Applies to

The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office.

Project type

  • Application-level projects

Microsoft Office version

  • Outlook 2003

  • Outlook 2007

For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

This example creates a new folder in Microsoft Office Outlook. The name of the user who is logged on is used for the folder name.

Example

Visual Basic
Private Sub CreateNewFolder()
    Dim inBox As Outlook.MAPIFolder = Me.Application.ActiveExplorer().Session. _
        GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
    Dim userName As String = Me.Application.ActiveExplorer() _
        .Session.CurrentUser.Name
    Dim customFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Try
        customFolder = inBox.Folders.Add(userName, Outlook _
           .OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
        MessageBox.Show("You have created a new folder named " _
            & userName & ".")
        inBox.Folders(userName).Display()
    Catch ex As Exception
        MessageBox.Show("The following error occurred: " & ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub
C#
private void CreateCustomFolder()
{
    Outlook.MAPIFolder inBox = (Outlook.MAPIFolder)
        this.Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder
        (Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
    string userName = (string)this.Application.ActiveExplorer()
        .Session.CurrentUser.Name;
    Outlook.MAPIFolder customFolder = null;
    try
    {
        customFolder = (Outlook.MAPIFolder)inBox.Folders.Add(userName,
            Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
        MessageBox.Show("You have created a new folder named " +
            userName + ".");
        inBox.Folders[userName].Display();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("The following error occurred: " + ex.Message);
    }
}
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