Populate Form with Outlook Contact Data

[Guest]

I have stored all my clients' information in Outlook 2003 contact.
Is there any application / interface (desktop or web based) where I can
design a form and pull a client's information into the form?

Let's assume that I have a client with info below:
First Name: John
Last Name: Smith

When I enter the first name and last name into the form fields and click on
a button (auto-populate), the engine will go search on Outlook contact to
populate all the other fields which match the contact fields.

Would appreciate if there is any solution for this problem. Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This is certainly possible with Outlook automation (see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm to get started), but since it's not clear what kind of "form" you're trying to create or for what purpose or in what programming language, it's hard to get into any details.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[Guest]

Hi Sue,
Can the form be created in vb.net desktop interface, or asp.net web based
interface? The search application is meant to be used locally, on a laptop.

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

For a desktop application, a VB.NET Windows form would be appropriate. You'd add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook library. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/index.htm#dotnet for prereqs and other key topics. Note that an external application would be subject to Outlook security prompts that prevent address harvesting from Outlook data.

For ASP.NET, the code would need to be all client-side JScript, unless you're writing an in-house application in an Exchange environment, in which case you could use WebDAV to connect your .NET application directly to the server.

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

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