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omar
omar

Reputation: 446

Editing outlook contacts using C#

I am developing a desktop application using C#, and I do not know how to edit a contact info in outlook, I Google-d it but no use.

I know how to retrieve and add contacts to outlook, what I am asking about is updating contacts.

any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4015

Answers (4)

MattUebel
MattUebel

Reputation: 2857

http://geekswithblogs.net/timh/archive/2006/05/26/79720.aspx

I might try to above. It looks like first you reference the Outlook COM object, and then create a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application from which you should be able to edit outlook objects.

Upvotes: 0

omar
omar

Reputation: 446

The solution is quite easy, though I did not find it using google.

  1. retrieve the outlook contact.

        Outlook.Items ctcItems = cf.Items;
    Outlook.Items items = ctcItems;
    Outlook.ContactItem ctc = (Outlook.ContactItem)items[index];

cf in the code above is the Outlook.MAPIFolder.

  1. update the Outlook.ContactItem .

    ctc.FullName = "Laurel";

    . . . . .

  2. save Outlook.ContactItem .

    ctc.Save();

Upvotes: 3

Helio
Helio

Reputation: 21

Another solution.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlookApp = new 
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

MAPIFolder Folder_Contacts = (MAPIFolder)
outlookApp.Session.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);       

var filter = String.Format("[FullName] = '{0}'", "Jose da Silva" );

ContactItem contact = (ContactItem)Folder_Contacts.Items.Find(filter);

if (contact != null)
{
    contact.FullName = "Joao da Silva";
    contact.Email1Address = "[email protected]";
    contact.Save();
}

Upvotes: 1

Bradley Smith
Bradley Smith

Reputation: 13601

Download and install VSTO, then add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook to your project. This will give you access to the Outlook object model.

Upvotes: 1

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