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How to: Programmatically search for an email address in contacts

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Applies to: yesVisual Studio noVisual Studio for Mac

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This example searches a contact folder for contacts that have the domain name example.com in their e-mail addresses.

Applies to: The information in this topic applies to VSTO Add-in projects for Outlook. For more information, see Features available by Office application and project type.

Example

private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    SearchforEmail("example.com");
}

private void SearchforEmail(string partialAddress)
{
    string contactMessage = string.Empty;
    Outlook.ContactItem foundContact;
    Outlook.MAPIFolder contacts = (Outlook.MAPIFolder)
        this.Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder
         (Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
    foreach (var contact in contacts.Items)
    {
        //The contacts folder may also distribution list so check to make sure we have a ContactItem
        if (contact is Outlook.ContactItem)
        {
            foundContact = contact as Outlook.ContactItem;
            if (foundContact.Email1Address != null)
            {
                if (foundContact.Email1Address.Contains(partialAddress))
                {
                    contactMessage = contactMessage + "New contact"
                    + foundContact.FirstName + " " + foundContact.LastName
                    + " Email Address is " + foundContact.Email1Address +
                    ". \n";
                }
            }
        }
    }
    if (!(contactMessage.Length > 0))
    {
        contactMessage = "No Contacts were found.";
    }
    MessageBox.Show(contactMessage);
}

Compile the code

This example requires:

  • Contacts that have the domain name example.com in their e-mail addresses (for example, somebody@example.com), and that have first names and last names.

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