Context menu customisation for the outlook word editor

I am writing an add-in to Outlook 2007 using VSTO 2005 SE for which I need to add a context menu item that appears in a new mail inspector window when I right click over the body of the email.

I was able to do the same back when winword.exe was run as the default editor in outlook 2003, but now it seems that the editor is run in-proc (I tried accessing the object model through the wordeditor object of the inpector but it looks like the object model and access to the corresponding commandbars object is blocked when the document is open as an email).

The command bar needs to be added to the word-editor’s context menu and nowhere else in Outlook. Could anyone help me out on how this can be done or point me to some resource that’ll help me?

Thanks in advance,

Rishab

[1419 byte] By [Rishab] at [2007-12-29]
# 1
Any help on this?
Rishab at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 2

Rishab,

I don't believe what you are trying to do can be accomplished in Outlook 2007, but let me look into it a little more.

RyanGregg-MSFT at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 3

It would be great if you could help me out on this. I've been blocked on this issue for some time now.

Thanks

Rishab

Rishab at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 4
I've talked with the WordMail guys, and this isn't possible for Outlook 2007 currently. As part of embedding WordMail into Outlook, this functionality was lost.
RyanGregg-MSFT at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 5
Thanks anyways Ryan
Rishab at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 6

You write that it's not possible "currently" - Is it likely that this will be possible in the near future?

I was planning to write an add-in based purely on adding some options to the right-click menu when composing a mail - is it safe to drop this project?

James_Steven at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...
# 7
I would say it's safe to drop that project. There's no telling when that functionality might be added, if ever.
SueMosher-OutlookMVP at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Tools for Office,Visual Studio Tools for Office...