• 2014-04-21 Version 1.4

  • Full support for MAPI named properties
  • Added support for OLE attachments
  • Added Outlook Appointment support
  • Added Outlook Sticky notes support
  • Added support so that ole images in RTF files get rendered correctly after converison to HTML (Tried to be as close as possible to how it looks in Outlook).
  • Extended E-mail support with RTF to HTML conversion. When there is no HTML body part and there is an RTF part then this one gets converted to HTML.
  • Moved all language specific things to a separate class so that this component can be easily translated to other languages. Please send me the translations if you do this.
  • Fixed a lot of bugs and made speed improvements

• 2014-03-03 Version 1.3 - Completed implementing Outlook flag system on E-mail MSG object - Made all the MAPI functions private - Moved all language related things into a separate file so that it is easy to translate - Moved all MAPI constants to a seperate file and added comment - Removed some unused classes - Cleaned up the code - Added option to convert attachment locations to hyperlinks - Fixed remove < and > when there is no E-mail address and only a displayname - Fixed issue with SentOn and Received on not being parsed as a DateTime values - Added support for categories in msg files (Outlook 2007 or later) - Fixed issue with E-mail address and displayname being swapped - Added RtfToHtmlConverter class (to convert RTF to HTML) - Added Message Type property so that we know what kind of MSG object we have

• 2014-03-20 Version 1.2.1 - Added support for double byte char sets like Chinese

• 2014-03-18 Version 1.2 - Fixed an issue with the Sent On (this was not set to the local timezone) - Added Received On, this is now added to the injected Outlook header - Added using statement to message object - Made some Native Methods internal - Fixed some disposing issues, this was done more the once on some places - Refactored the code so that everything was correct according to the Microsoft code rules

• 2014-03-06 Version 1.1 - Added support for special characters like German umlauts, they are parsed out of the HTML text that is embedded inside the RTF - The RTFBody was loaded 4 times instead of once - A CC was always added even when there was no CC (the To was taken in that case) - Fixed some minor issues and cleaned up the code

• 2014-01-16 First release

This project can also be used from a COM based language like VB script or VB6. To use it first compile the code and register the com visible assembly with the command:

Regasm.exe /codebase DocumentServices.Modules.Readers.MsgReader.dll

After that you can call it like this:

dim msgreader set msgreader = createobject("DocumentServices.Modules.Readers.MsgReader.Reader") msgreader.ExtractToFolder "", ""