Prereq Knowledge: C#, Office, Event Sinks, Marshalling

I haven't found a way to trap ALL office events in Microsoft's Interop
wrapper for Office Outlook. Specifically, there are events which don't
fire if I just add delegates to objects. For example, the folders
object does not reliably provide indicates of insertions, changes, and
deletions. And I only get events for mail objects which have had
explicit handlers set for them.

So I want to create an event sink in C# which gets ALL or huge bunches
of events without being tied to specific objects (this gets very heavy
in weight if I attach a handler to EVERY message in the folders!).

I've heard of Marshalling events to apply to a collection, but I don't
know how to do it and am unsure if it would work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 20 Aug 2003 16:52 PDT

Hi, ryanbeach-ga:

Microsoft gives us some pretty explicit help (which is apparently
necessary, given the obscurity of the techniques) for writing managed
code (C#) for event sinks in Exchange, here:

[Writing Managed Sinks]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsmtps/html/writingmngsinks.asp

On the face of it your primary challenge seems to be elucidating the
event model in Microsoft Outlook sufficiently to make event detection
reliable.  Is this a fair restatement of the gist of your question?

I'd hate to see a Researcher "charge off in all directions" if the
desired scope of your question can be narrowed somewhat.

Thanks in advance,
mathtalk-ga

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Clarification of Question by ryanbeach-ga on 25 Aug 2003 12:59 PDT

Yes, I think you understand my problem. 

I don't quite get enough information from the Server example to
implement it in Outlook and/or its object model.

I'm doing a plug-in to Outlook and it's not getting the change folder,
add folder, delete folder events despite my attaching delegates to the
appropriate object. Most events fire as they should. But I need the
event sink to catch all events to catch the rest.

Your restatement is fair.