Filtering Outlook 2002 Views Programmatically

[sethmurphy]

I have a COM add-in that I would like to use custom view with.
so, I Installed Outlook 2002 wanting to use the new XML defined views.
I was able to create a view, view the XML, etc...
When I added a filter through the GUI, and then viewed the XML through code, the filter element seemed to be in the view.
So through code I retrieved the XML, modified the string to search for in one of the filter conditions.
I then retrieved the XML again to verify my changes.
However, going back to the GUI filtering was set to off.
I found a PP Presentation from Sue Mosher at an ASP.NET conference that mentioned the FILTER element was read only.

http://www.msofficemag.net/Events/MOSC2002/Materials/OFT05S21/5

Is this so? Microsoft makes no mention of it, and even this was an obscure reference. Does anyone know this to be true, or Has anyone foud a work around not "Officially" supported by Microsoft.

The problem I would like to use this solution for is to enable better searching for categories and my own subcategories as custom fields. I would like to scan a folder instead of using the limited keyword searching available and create a filter based on the mileage property where I store a unique ID(Contacts only).
Sounds simple enough.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions
1. create a new view(or use a generic template with a simple dummy filter)
2. Get the view.XML
3. Add(or modify)the filter element
4. Set view.XML to the new XML

I have done this, but the filter is set to OFF when checking the view in the GUI.

 

[sethmurphy]

Ok, so after much searching it was buried in microsoft's site, sorry.

In order to programmatically define filters in a custom view it is neccessary to upgrade to to Office XP Service Pack 2.