Connecting to a database

[Mr Couper]

I would like to create a form in Outlook, which can view the details of
contacts stored in an SQL DB. The details of the contacts could then be used
when creating new e-mails. How do you create such a form? Is it even possible

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Ask in a more specific newgroup down the road;
outlook.program_vba
outlook.program_forms

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You would have to write code to connect to the database and fill the
controls in the form with information from the appropriate database recoved.
If you want the data to be used for mail creation, it will have to actually
reside in Outlook, not just be viewable from an Outlook form. You may want
to consider a tool like TabTag that exposes a database as an Outlook folder.
See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I would like to create a form in Outlook, which can view the details of
contacts stored in an SQL DB. The details of the contacts could then be used
when creating new e-mails. How do you create such a form? Is it even

possible