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Jason Smart · Guest

Hi

I delete an item (EXCEPT a ContactItem) from Outlook from within Outlook
itself (by pressing the DELETE key). The item gets placed into the
'Deleted Items' folder.

For all items so far (except ContactItem) it appears that the EntryID
for this item remains the same. Therefore if I go to reference the item
based on it's EntryID from my program, it happily does what I want to
do, on the deleted item. A ContactItem raises an exception which is
what I expected to happen for all other items.

Why is this?

I do something along the lines of:
...MapiNamespace.GetItemFromID(EntryID, StoreID) as _TaskItem
where _TaskItem is an interface to a TaskItem.

when I execute this code for a ContactItem, it raises an EoleException.
Other items return the item sitting in the Deleted Items. If I remove
the item out of deleted items (ie, permanently delete) it raises the
error fine.

So is there a better way to get access to my item then by calling
GetItemFromID, or once I have my item, can I find out if it came from
the Deleted Items folder or not?

Many thanks

Jason
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Dmitry Streblechenko · Guest

Normally the entry id does change when an item is moved to a different
folder, it is just a peculiarity of the PST provider that it stays the same.
You can check the MailItem.Parent property to see whether it is the Deleted
Items folder or not. Or you can delete the message twice: call
MailItem.Delete, dereference it, then try to open if again using
GetItemFromID. If it opens fine and the parent is Deleted Items, call Delete
again - this time it will be gone for good.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Jason Smart" <jason (AT) ditsu (DOT) com.---> wrote

Jason Smart · Guest

Hi

Thanks for that. I shall read the .Parent property. I'm not actually
deleting the items from my program in the first place.

Cheers and merry Xmas

Jason

Dmitry Streblechenko wrote: