New Post: Visual Studio Outlook Project References

Hi,

I am trying to develop a simple outlook project to get some basic knowledge on how NetOffice is used. I am using vb.net in the Visual Studio Community IDE. I have created references to the NetOffice.dll, OutlookAPI.dll, OfficeAPI and VBIDEApi.dll. My code, which was copied from one of the examples is:

Imports NetOffice.OutlookApi
Imports NetOffice.OutlookApi.Enums

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    ' send mail in outlook
    ' taken from Example03.vb
    ' start outlook
    Dim outlookApplication = New Outlook.Application()

    ' Create a new MailItem.
    Dim mailItem As Outlook.MailItem = outlookApplication.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem)

    ' prepare item and send
    mailItem.Recipients.Add("xx@xx.com")
    mailItem.Subject = "hello eric"
    mailItem.Body = "Season Greetings from NetOffice. Kind Regards - Sebastian"
    mailItem.Send()

    ' close outlook and dispose
    outlookApplication.Quit()
    outlookApplication.Dispose()


End Sub

End Class


The issue that I have is that is that types Outlook.Application() and Outlook.MailItem are not defined. I can fix that by Importing Microsoft.Office.Interop but my understanding was that this is not supposed to be required. It appears that I have missed something. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Thanks