Microsoft Outlook Add-In by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

After successfully downloading and installing a free one-month trial evaluation version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017 Professional Graphical User Interface Integrated Development Environment, I decided to try my hand at creating an Office VSTO Add-In. I chose the computer language C# and the Office application Outlook. Among other functions Outlook is a personal computer’s email client for IMAP or POP3. The problem that the add-in solves is a preliminary evaluation of the meaning of an email’s body. The add-in counts the frequency of occurrence of the following (assuming English language):

  1. Characters
  2. Lines Separated by CR/LF
  3. Words
  4. Danger Words – words that indicate danger to the author and/or other people, places, or things
  5. Cuss or Curse Words
  6. Hate and Objectionable Words
  7. Lower Case Characters
  8. Upper Case Characters
  9. Numeric Characters
  10. Consonant Count Including ‘y’
  11. Vowel Count Excluding the Sometimes ‘y’
  12. Punctuation Count {‘.’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘:’, ‘?’, ‘!’}

Once an email is opened and in an active inspector the OutlookAddIn1’s Outlook ribbon is displayed with 12 edit boxes that contain the counts enumerated in the preceding numbered list. Below is an email that illustrates night of the frequency tabulations.

Outlook AddIn Test Blog 1

The next email contains danger, cuss, and hate words.

Outlook AddIn Test Blog 2

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Profile/james%20pate%20williams%20jr

https://www.facebook.com/pg/JamesPateWilliamsJrConsultant/posts/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-williams-1a5b1370/

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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