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AttachmentSelection Object

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Outlook Developer Reference

Contains a set of Attachment objects that represent the selected attachments in an Outlook item.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Outlook 2007

Remarks

Use the Attachments parameter of the AttachmentContextMenuDisplay event, from the Application object, to retrieve an AttachmentSelection object. The AttachmentSelection object contains a read-only collection of attachments selected in the active inspector for an Outlook item.

Use the ContextMenuClose event to dispose of any references to an AttachmentSelection object, or any Attachment object contained by the AttachmentSelection object, obtained from the AttachmentContextMenuDisplay event.

Example

The following Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) sample adds a menu item, as a CommandBarButton object, to the context menu if one or more Attachment objects are selected in the active inspector. Selecting that menu item saves the selected Attachment objects to the desktop of the current user. The ContextMenuClose event is used to dispose of any remaining object references used by the sample.

The sample code must be placed in a class module such as ThisOutlookSession.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Private Declare Function SHGetSpecialFolderLocation _
    Lib "shell32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
    ByVal nFolder As Long, ppidl As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList _
Lib "shell32" Alias "SHGetPathFromIDListA" _
(ByVal Pidl As Long, ByVal pszPath As String) As Long


Private Declare Sub CoTaskMemFree Lib "ole32" (ByVal pvoid As Long)


Dim objAttachments As AttachmentSelection


Private Sub Application_AttachmentContextMenuDisplay( _
ByVal CommandBar As Office.CommandBar, _
ByVal Attachments As AttachmentSelection)


Dim objButton As CommandBarButton

On Error GoTo ErrRoutine

If Attachments.Count > 0 Then

    ' Get a reference to the selected attachments
    ' so we can work with them in the
    ' SaveToDesktop routine.
    Set objAttachments = Attachments
    
    ' Create a new menu item and place it
    ' just after the Reply To All button
    Set objButton = CommandBar.Controls.Add( _
        msoControlButton, , , , True)
    
    ' Configure the menu item.
    With objButton
        .Style = msoButtonIconAndCaption
        .Caption = "Save to &Desktop"
        .FaceId = 355
        ' If you place this sample in a class module
        ' other than ThisOutlookSession, update this
        ' line of code to ensure that the OnAction
        ' property contains the correct project,
        ' class, and routine name.
        .OnAction = "Project1.ThisOutlookSession.SaveToDesktop"
    End With
End If



EndRoutine:
On Error GoTo 0
Set objButton = Nothing
Exit Sub


ErrRoutine:
MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, _
vbOKOnly Or vbCritical, _
"Application_AttachmentContextMenuDisplay"
GoTo EndRoutine
End Sub


Private Sub Application_ContextMenuClose(ByVal ContextMenu As OlContextMenu)
On Error Resume Next


If ContextMenu = olAttachmentContextMenu Then
    ' Once the context menu closes, remove the
    ' object reference to the attachments.
    If Not (objAttachments Is Nothing) Then
        Set objAttachments = Nothing
    End If
End If

On Error GoTo 0



End Sub


Private Sub SaveToDesktop()
Dim lngPidlFound As Long
Dim lngFolderFound As Long
Dim lngPidl As Long
Dim strPath As String
Dim objAttachment As Attachment


Const CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY = &H10
Const MAX_PATH = 260
Const NOERROR = 0

On Error GoTo ErrRoutine

' Obtain the physical path to the desktop folder
' for the current user.
strPath = Space(MAX_PATH)
lngPidlFound = SHGetSpecialFolderLocation( _
    0, CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY, lngPidl)

If lngPidlFound = NOERROR Then
    lngFolderFound = SHGetPathFromIDList(lngPidl, strPath)
    If lngFolderFound Then
        strPath = Left$(strPath, _
            InStr(1, strPath, vbNullChar) - 1)
        If Right(strPath, 1) <> "\" Then strPath = strPath & "\"
    End If
End If

CoTaskMemFree lngPidl

' Save each selected attachment to the
' desktop folder.
If strPath <> "" Then
    For Each objAttachment In objAttachments
        objAttachment.SaveAsFile strPath & objAttachment.FileName
    Next
End If



EndRoutine:
On Error GoTo 0
Set objAttachment = Nothing
Exit Sub


ErrRoutine:
MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, _
vbOKOnly Or vbCritical, _
"SaveToDesktop"
GoTo EndRoutine
End Sub

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