I'm trying to fetch the categories exposed by the Outlook Namespace. I'm
executing this code:

CComPtrOutlook::_NameSpace pSession;
m_Application-get_Session(&pSession);
Outlook::_Categories * pCategories = NULL;
pSession-get_Categories(&pCategories);

which is raising an exception : Access violation writing location 0x3005ce28.

I'm doing this during the OnConnection message of the Application. pSession
seems to be valid.

Any pointers? Clearly I'm making some bonehead mistake.

Thanks!
Rod

I can't help with C++/ATL code, but does it work if you wait until the
OnStartupComplete event fires? What about a timer that fires to execute that
code some time after OnStartupComplete fires?

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"Rod Fitzsimmons Frey" Rod Fitzsimmons
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I'm trying to fetch the categories exposed by the Outlook Namespace. I'm
executing this code:

CComPtrOutlook::_NameSpace pSession;
m_Application-get_Session(&pSession);
Outlook::_Categories * pCategories = NULL;
pSession-get_Categories(&pCategories);

which is raising an exception : Access violation writing location
0x3005ce28.

I'm doing this during the OnConnection message of the Application.
pSession
seems to be valid.

Any pointers? Clearly I'm making some bonehead mistake.

Thanks!
Rod

My code, ( in OL 2007 ) which works:

Outlook::_NameSpacePtr NS;
if(NS = spApp-GetNamespace(L"MAPI")){
_CategoriesPtr spCats = NS-Categories;

is essentually the same as yours. ( ignoring the smartpointers )
It's executed in the OnConnection event.


"Rod Fitzsimmons Frey" Rod Fitzsimmons
wrote in message news
I'm trying to fetch the categories exposed by the Outlook Namespace. I'm
executing this code:

CComPtrOutlook::_NameSpace pSession;
m_Application-get_Session(&pSession);
Outlook::_Categories * pCategories = NULL;
pSession-get_Categories(&pCategories);

which is raising an exception : Access violation writing location
0x3005ce28.

I'm doing this during the OnConnection message of the Application.
pSession
seems to be valid.

Any pointers? Clearly I'm making some bonehead mistake.

Thanks!
Rod