Question

My application has an E-mail address field (textbox) for which I would like to load in a custom AutoComplete source from Outlook. Any suggestions or resources on how to do this?

The loading of the address book into the custom source will probably occur on the form load and I will assign the custom source to that textbox there too.

Answer 1

I’ve used the Outlook Primary Interop Assemblies successfully before for working with Outlook.

This example shows how to enumerate through all entries in the address book and you should be able to use it as a starting point. In particular, this line will output the name and email address that you’ll be needing to populate the autocomplete textbox.

Outlook.ExchangeUser exchUser = addrEntry.GetExchangeUser();
Debug.WriteLine(exchUser.Name + " " + exchUser.PrimarySmtpAddress);

As for the autocomplete portion, check out jQuery UI Autocomplete.