create a outlook add-in to popup an input text field form for user info

Question

I would like to develop an Outlook 2013 add-in that can be clicked and then comes up with a form that asks for user name, phone number etc.

After all the information entered that data can be appended to the end of the mail content as the signature.

I really don't know how to call the form with input text field when clicking the add-in.

Could you give me any ideas?

Answer 1

You may treat your VSTO based add-in as a regular .Net application. For example, in the Ribbon's button Click event handler you can create a new Windows Form instance and display it for users for gathering the required information. In the same way like you do this in WinForms applications.

You may find the Outlook Solutions section in MSDN helpful.