Outlook calendar access from .net application

[arvind.darwin]

Hi,

Actually, I am very much new to the idea of outlook programming and
have no clue on how to go about it.

They say you have to find your own way and here I am.

I have a Office management application developed in C#.net.

Now I want to access a users calendar in outlook and get the meetings
scheduled, recieve, respond and send meeting requests, etc. In other
words anything that happens with calendering on Outlook desktop
client, I want to develop that in my .net application.

I guess there must be a way to talk to the backend server and retrive
the info for seemless integration with any application. I mean
interfaces, functions or objects.

As you can see I have no clue how to go about it.

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

- Arvind

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you want to interface directly with the Exchange server, then that's not an Outlook application. Exchange developer documentation starts at http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/.

If you want to interface with the user's data in Outlook, which might or might not be from an Exchange application, then you use the Outlook object model, just as you would use Word or Excel's object model. Both MSDN and the MSKB have articles on accessing Outlook objects with C#, and there are many samples on my web site and elsewhere.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers