Hello,

I fairly new to Outlook programming and VBA as such. I want to access a Web
Service from an Outlook form, on a particular action. I know that I can
access a Web Service from a custom form in VBA using the Web Services
Toolkit from Microsoft.

However, an Outlook form cannot be edited in VBA (atleast thats what I know
as of now) and hence I am unable to add code to access the web service to an
Outlook form (Post form). Is there a way for me to access a web service
using VB Script.

Would really appreciate help on this topic from anyone who has tried this
thing out.

Instead of attempting to call the Web Service from VBScript behind the
Outlook form, create an Outlook Add-in that exposes a public method that in
turn calls your Web Service and returns results to the form-level code. For
a .NET example, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnou...

--
Randy Byrne, MVP - Outlook
http://www.microeye.com
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2002 (MSPress - July 2001)
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 (MSPress)
http://www.microeye.com/books
Micro Eye ZipOut
http://www.microeye.com/zipout

Randy,

Thank you for your useful tip. The link that you forwarded (and wrote) was
quite useful too. However, I dont know if I can apply this Add-In to a
custom form in a public folder. I have a custom form (derived from the Post
form) and I want to run some business logic on an event of the form (in the
public folder).

I want to know if I would be able use this add-in for any form (custom form)
in the public folder or is it just restricted to the standard forms and the
Outlook folders.

Instead of attempting to call the Web Service from VBScript behind the
Outlook form, create an Outlook Add-in that exposes a public method that in
turn calls your Web Service and returns results to the form-level code. For
a .NET example, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnou...

--
Randy Byrne, MVP - Outlook
http://www.microeye.com
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2002 (MSPress - July 2001)
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 (MSPress)
http://www.microeye.com/books
Micro Eye ZipOut
http://www.microeye.com/zipout

You can develop the Add-in for a specific form (determined by the custom
form's message class) in a specific folder.

--
Randy Byrne, MVP - Outlook
http://www.microeye.com
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2002 (MSPress - July 2001)
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 (MSPress)
http://www.microeye.com/books
Micro Eye ZipOut
http://www.microeye.com/zipout

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnou...