Programmatically creating auto-format rule in Outlook

Here is the code snippet…

private void AutoFormat()
{
      try
      {
            AutoFormatRule afr;
            TableView tv;
            tv = applicationObject.ActiveExplorer().CurrentView;
            MessageBox.Show(tv.AutoFormatRules.Count.ToString());
            for (int i=1;i<=tv.AutoFormatRules.Count;i++)
            {
                  AutoFormatRule rl =  tv.AutoFormatRules[i];
                  if(rl.Name=="TestAFRule")
                  {
                        tv.AutoFormatRules.Remove(i);
                        MessageBox.Show("Deleted" + rl.Name);
                  }
            }
            afr = tv.AutoFormatRules.Add("TestAFRule");
            afr.Font.Color = OlColor.olColorRed;
            afr.Enabled = true;
            tv.Save();
            tv.Apply();
            MessageBox.Show("Done");
      }
      catch(System.Exception ex)
      {
            MessageBox.Show("Err:" + ex.Message);
      }
}

 

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