Security issue accessing outlook from a Word Add-in

Security issue accessing outlook from a Word Add-in

• cashrolls2

  I did google and search on msdn/technet (allways do that)- hence came up with the empty articles.. All the other info I dug up was about Outlook add-ins running in outlook... Im able to avoid the warnings by turning off the security, but thats not a valid solution :) What remains to test is running with antivirus program enabled, will do this monday (read somewhere this should help running add-ins). Reason I posted was to hear if anyone had similar experiences..
  

• ejamashu

  Hi Mikkel

  I agree with Cindy, the Outlook programming newsgroup is probably the best place to get help on this Outlook specific question. You can find that here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.vba&lang=en&cr=US).

  Mike

  
  

• Allen_Iowa

  Thanks for your reply, Harry

  It doesnt seem to resolve my problem though, as my add-in is a Word Add-in, and hence the ThisApplication object is Word :)

  It seems my only choice is to get the Outlook application by using :

  new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

  Or am I mistaken

  
  

• LynnOoi

  Hi Mikkel

  The Outlook programming newsgroup I linked to in my other reply would be the best place to get a discussion going :-)

  
  
  

• worldhello

  Hi Mikkel

  The Outlook specialists happen by here only sporadically, which is why I'm posting a reply to you "now". This is an Outlook security issue - you'd get the same no matter what programming language you use to address Outlook's object model from outside Outlook.

  If you browse through the Outlook dev newsgroup (or do a Google search on it) you'd certainly pick up information on how the security measure behaves, and what you can do to work with/around it. There's probably also information if you do a Knowledge Base search.

  
  
  

• David - Bitfield

  Mikkel, you have several options, all listed at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm . The most relevant are likely to be (a) building an Outlook add-in that exposes methods that your Word add-in can call and (b) keeping the code all in the Word add-in but using the third-party Outlook Redemption library (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/) to avoid the security prompts.
  

• Pete Orologas

  Also, have a look at this topic in the Visual Studio Tools for Office documentation, in the section "Code Is Blocked by the Outlook Object Model Guard":

  Specific Security Considerations for Office Solutions

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1thd35d7(VS.80).aspx

  Harry Miller
  Technical Editor
  http://blogs.msdn.com/harrymiller
  This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

  
  
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