Office® XP Development with VBA

Manipulating Folders and Items

Folders in Outlook are represented by the MAPIFolder object. You can obtain a reference to the default folder for a built-in Outlook item by using the NameSpace object's GetDefaultFolder method. The syntax is

						obj.GetDefaultFolder(itemtype)

Obj is a reference to the NameSpace object, and item is a constant identifying the type of item whose default folder you want to retrieve. Possible settings for this argument are described in Table 10.1.

Table 10.1. Constants for the GetDefaultFolder method's itemtype argument.

Constant	Item
OlFolderCalendar	Calendar
OlFolderContacts	Contacts (the address book)
OlFolderDeletedItems	Items that have been deleted
OlFolderDrafts	Drafts of incompleted items
OlFolderInbox	Received e-mail messages ...