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Reputation:

How to create a calendar event / appointment in Exchange Server 2003 without using Outlook?

Is there any way to create - manipulate calendar events in Exchange Server 2003 ? I'm using VB.NET 2005. I don't want to use MAPI because everytime I will have to type user name and passwords. Is there any other way ? I used redemption.dll but everytime I want to add for eg. a calendar event it displays the login screen.

Any suggestions ?

Appreciate your help

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2685

Answers (2)

The Giraffe
The Giraffe

Reputation: 31

I have worked on a project to manipulate appointments (when I first started programming), and from VB, the easiest route to Exchange appointments at that time (avoiding MAPI) was using the Office Core & Outlook interop APIs named Interop.Microsoft.Office.Core.dll & Interop.Outlook.dll. As this was for an application on a desktop machine you needed to have Outlook installed on the same box, but this may have changed since (was around 4-5 years ago).

Alternatively with the the CDO libraries (which wrap the MAPI APIs), I don't think you need Outlook installed and these are relatively easy (and much faster) to use. May have been superceeded by now however.

Just on a side note, an application called OutlookSpy proved invaluable at the time for inspecting exchange runtime objects.

Upvotes: 1

Tor Haugen
Tor Haugen

Reputation: 19637

Check out WebDAV. Appearantly, there are some limitation in WebDAV with regards to recurring appointments, but the interface is simple and effective.

Check the MSDN Library.

Upvotes: 1

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