Applescript cannot reference Outlook 2011 Contact Email Address

Question

Hi All,
Hair all pulled out; about to kick my head against a real brick wall.  I have an applescript that had worked great in Entourage but Outlook has changed the dictionary. Trying to tweak it, but it's painful.
Basically, I'm trying to add email addresses to a contact object. In entourage, I used this:
set addx to (make new email address with properties {type:home, contents:(item i of emailAddresses)} at theContact)
And it worked great (obviously, I declare theContact earlier and do stuff with it later)
Accordng to the dictionary, in Outlook it seems the list of contact email addresses are in a property called "Email Addresses" which contains a list of "Contact Email Address" items.
Any attempt to reference, declare, make new, ANYTHING with contact emaill addres fails with an error.  As an example (emailAddresses is my own list of text items)
This command: set addx to make new contact email address with properties {type:work, address:(item i of emailAddresses)}
Returns this: Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make class contact email address.
This one: set end of email addresses of theContact to (contact email address with properties {type:work, address:(item i of emailAddresses)}
won't even compile, and returns: A properties:true can’t go after this contact email address.
So I'm not sure how to add an address if I can't declare one.
If anyone has successfully added an email to a contact record via applescript, I'd LOVE to see how you did it!
Thanks,
Jeff

Answer 1

I don't have Outlook, so can't be sure here, but there are common AppleScript parallels that might help.
This command: set addx to make new contact email address with properties {type:work,address:(item i of emailAddresses)}
Returns this: Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make class contact email address.
Typically you cannot arbitrarily make a new object without defining where.
I would suspect this code would work better as:
set addx to make new contact email address at end of email addresses of theContact with properties {type:work,address:(item i of emailAddresses)}
By telling AppleScript where to create the object you should be OK
Just a guess, though.