How do I Reference an Item in a Collection by Name

[NeoPa]

This may be more complicated than indicated by the title as the collection I'm referring to is a CommandBars collection found in a Microsoft.Offic e.Interop.Outlo ok.Inspector from VSTO 2005 SE.

In Outlook VBA I might typically have an Inspector object (equivalent to Microsoft.Offic e.Interop.Outlo ok.Inspector in C#) named VBAInspector and within that Inspector I could refer to :

VBAInspector.CommandBars("View")

This would return the CommandBar object whose name was "View" (Essentially the View menu from the Inspector. An Inspector is a window opened by Outlook to show any item such as an email, contact, task, etc).

In my C# code I have (I've tried to limit the code to relevant lines but can post more if that would be helpful) :

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

...
    private Outlook.Inspector olInspector;
...
    private void olInspector_Activate()
    {
        Office.CommandBar cbView;

        cbView = olInspector.CommandBars("View");
    }

This produces the following error message for line #10 :

'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._Inspector.CommandBars' is a 'property' but is used like a 'method'

If I've missed anything out then just let me know and I'll be happy to provide any further information.

[GaryTexmo]

Try using square brackets instead... the message is correct in that CommandBars is a property, but you're calling it like a method (ie, someClass.AMeth od("myParameter ")).

If the collection takes a string as the index, you should be able to supply it in square brackets (like an array).

cbView.olInspector.CommandBars["View"];

Been programming in a BASIC language lately? ;) (This gets me *all* the time.)

[NeoPa]

Coming from Office and VBA, Yes. I very much have been.

That was also the solution I needed.

Thanks Gary :-)