C# Outlook interop and OpenSharedItem for opening MSG files

c# interop outlook office-interop msg
Nikolaos picture Nikolaos · Dec 15, 2009 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

Is there any tutorial or resource I can follow in order to use the OpenSharedItem outlook interop method. My goal is to read MSG files using it (as it can apparently do so).

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Nikolaos picture Nikolaos · Dec 15, 2009

Thanks Svetlozar, I've used the resources to create something like the following:

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

var item = app.Session.OpenSharedItem("C:\\test.msg") as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem;
string body = item.HTMLBody;
int att = item.Attachments.Count;

It may be useful to others looking for a quickstart as I was.

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