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Outlook Developer Reference
Select an Account

To select an Account object, use the Collection.Find method to select an item from the MAPI Folder. The Find method accepts as input a String query and filters items based on the query. If there are more than one items matching the query, only the first match is returned.

The following C# and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) examples show how to select an Account object.

  private void FindAccount()
{ 

Outlook.ApplicationClass _app = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
Outlook.Application olApp = (Outlook.Application)_app;
Outlook.NameSpace olNameSpace = _app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Outlook.Folders folders = olNameSpace.Session.Folders;
Outlook.Folder bcmRootFolder = (Outlook.Folder)folders["Business Contact Manager"];
Outlook.Folder accountsFolder = (Outlook.Folder)bcmRootFolder.Folders["Accounts"];


string strQuery = "[FileAs] = 'Wide World Importers'";


Outlook.ContactItem accountItem = (Outlook.ContactItem)accountsFolder.Items.Find(strQuery);
if (accountItem != null)
{
Console.WriteLine("Account found");
}


else
{
Console.WriteLine("Account not found");
}


Console.ReadLine();


}



  Sub SelectAccount()

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim bcmRootFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim olFolders As Outlook.Folders
Dim bcmAccountsFldr As Outlook.Folder
Dim existAcct As Outlook.ContactItem


Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolders = objNS.Session.Folders
Set bcmRootFolder = olFolders("Business Contact Manager")
Set bcmAccountsFldr = bcmRootFolder.Folders("Accounts")
Set existAcct = bcmAccountsFldr.Items.Find("[FileAs] = 'Wide World'")


If Not TypeName(existAcct) = "Nothing" Then


  MsgBox ("Account selected successfully")



Else


  MsgBox ("No Account found with Full Name Wide World Importers")



End If


Set existAcct = Nothing
Set bcmAccountsFldr = Nothing
Set bcmRootFolder = Nothing
Set olFolders = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing


End Sub

See Also

Create an Account | Edit an Account | Delete an Account | Office Developer Center: Outlook 2007