Easy Question: Pocket Outlook

[Francis Shanahan]

Folks, this is an easy one but I'm a newbie so pardon my ignorance:

I'm trying to get access to the Outlook DB on my pocket pc. From my googling
it looks like the only way to do this is through the POOM SDK which I can't
find anywhere or a third party ( "In The Hand") which I'd rather not use.

Is this the case?
All I want is a simple access to the Contacts database. I'd like to do it
through vb.NET with the Compact Framework but I'm lost.

Help appreciated.

-fs

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

The question is simple but the solution isn't. POOM is accessible through a
COM object included in the PocketPC platform. Since the CF has no COM
interop you must write a C wrapper that marshals the interface calls from
the CF to the COM object. Now I was able to summarize the task in one
sentence, but the actual implementation is quite a bit longer. There is a
starting point sample at gotdotnet. The other options are the InTheHand's
wrapper or the Odyssey CFCOM wrapper

 

[Francis Shanahan]

Do you have the link to the sample at gotDotNet?

The question is simple but the solution isn't. POOM is accessible through a
COM object included in the PocketPC platform. Since the CF has no COM
interop you must write a C wrapper that marshals the interface calls from
the CF to the COM object. Now I was able to summarize the task in one
sentence, but the actual implementation is quite a bit longer. There is a
starting point sample at gotdotnet. The other options are the InTheHand's
wrapper or the Odyssey CFCOM wrapper

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

We've reposted it here:

http://www.opennetcf.org/samples.asp