Add control in Outlook email body

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Hi All,
I need to create an outlook add-in using .net 3.5 framework. Requirement includes adding a dropdown control in email's body part. This drop down will be bound from a datasource.

My question is - Is it possible to add a control in email's body part using .net? If yes then how?

Kindly help
Thanks in advance.

Raks

Posted 14-Jul-11 21:29pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-07-14T22:43:00

The control itself is not a problem — use MIME type "text/html" for the whole e-mail or e-mail part (in this case, Content-Type: multipart/alternative) and add a control to HTML text. But data binding cannot be used in this case, as the source of HTML code is not the HTTP server where you could use server-side technology with data binding — there is not server-side.

I can see only one possibility: develop Web application with data binding on server side. Send e-mail with "text/html" content type and insert iframe element in the body of HTML e-mail. The attribute src of iframe should point to the dynamically updated Web page on your side.

I would not recommend solving this task at all as it would seem as the abuse of that simple e-mail concept. Receivers of e-mails expect static content. Only in this case many operations like archiving of e-mails, copying its data to some other data repositories make sense.

—SA