Display the Select Names dialog box to resolve recipients
This example attempts to resolve the recipients provided by the recips parameter, and displays the Outlook Select Names dialog box for each recipient that is ambiguous and cannot be resolved.
Example
This code sample calls the SelectNamesDialog object to display the Select Names dialog box which shows the Outlook address book. Through this dialog box, the user can select a name from the address book. If the name is not resolved, the recipient will be removed from recips. If the name is resolved, then the code sample will return the AddressEntry object of the recipient to recips.
If you use Visual Studio to test this code example, you must first add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Object Library component and specify the Outlook variable when you import the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace. The Imports or using statement must not occur directly before the functions in the code example but must be added before the public Class declaration. The following lines of code show how to do the import and assignment in Visual Basic and C#.
Imports Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
Private Sub ResolveRecipients(ByVal recips As Outlook.Recipients)
If recips Is Nothing Then
Throw New ArgumentNullException()
End If
If recips.ResolveAll() Then
Return
Else
For i As Integer = recips.Count To 1 Step -1
If Not (recips(i).Resolve()) Then
Dim snd As Outlook.SelectNamesDialog = _
Application.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog()
snd.Recipients.Add(recips(i).Name)
snd.NumberOfRecipientSelectors = _
Outlook.OlRecipientSelectors.olShowTo
snd.AllowMultipleSelection = False
snd.Display()
If Not (snd.Recipients.ResolveAll()) Then
recips.Remove(i)
Else
recips.Remove(i)
recips.Add(snd.Recipients(1).Address)
End If
snd = Nothing
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
private void ResolveRecipients(Outlook.Recipients recips)
{
if (recips == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException();
}
if (recips.ResolveAll())
{
return;
}
else
{
for (int i = recips.Count; i > 0; i--)
{
if (!recips[i].Resolve())
{
Outlook.SelectNamesDialog snd =
Application.Session.
GetSelectNamesDialog();
snd.Recipients.Add(recips[i].Name);
snd.NumberOfRecipientSelectors =
Outlook.OlRecipientSelectors.olShowTo;
snd.AllowMultipleSelection = false;
snd.Display();
if (!snd.Recipients.ResolveAll())
{
recips.Remove(i);
}
else
{
recips.Remove(i);
recips.Add(snd.Recipients[1].Address);
}
snd = null;
}
}
}
}