Ways to find empty Slots in the Calendar

Is there a way to find empty time slots in an outlook calendar? I would
like to check whether any item is scheduled already at a current time.
Of course I can just check if any item of this folder is scheduled at
this time, but this becomes very slow if the folder has many items.
However, as the folder is just a MAPI-Folder, I can't find any methods
in the object browser which would offer such a functionality.

Does anyone know if such a functionality is offered somewhere?

Regards,
Stefan

Use the MAPIFolder.Items.Find method; see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/finddate.htm

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"Stefan Singer" <lala@macnews.de> wrote in message news:etlJyfrjGHA.836@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Is there a way to find empty time slots in an outlook calendar? I would
> like to check whether any item is scheduled already at a current time.
> Of course I can just check if any item of this folder is scheduled at
> this time, but this becomes very slow if the folder has many items.
> However, as the folder is just a MAPI-Folder, I can't find any methods
> in the object browser which would offer such a functionality.
>
> Does anyone know if such a functionality is offered somewhere?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan