Can Electron be used to create an Outlook Add-in?

Question

I want to make an outlook addin to manage calendar events. Can this be done using Electron rather than C#?

Answer 1

The practical answer is: No.

But of course it is possible to a quite high cost.

Some things that would be needed to pull it off:

1. Build tools for generating the boilerplate for a Outlook Add-In (Ribbon implementation, OutlookAddInBase etc) and project files from a configuration file or other markup
2. Proper embedding of Electron in a WinForms application (discussion regarding that here)

The best approach if you want to continue to build the Outlook Add-In is to do it the pure C# way - if it is an complex application and you want to use web technology to build it you can use the WebBrowser Control (IE/Edge) or CefSharp (Chrome) which you can embed in a WinForms application with ease.