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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 2609

How to create Global Address List folder in Outlook programmatically?

I have Outlook plugin (written with Visual C++) which syncs contacts with DAV server (which acts as a replacement to Exchange). Personal contacts are fine but I don't know how to mimic the behavior of Global Address List (GAL).

Ideally, I want to create GAL folder the user will be able to search just like how it happens when Outlook is connected to Exchange. Is it possible at all? Perhaps, it's not possible with Outlook Object Model but still possible with MAPI? Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to start?

I need to support Outlook 2007+ but supporting only the newest versions (for this particular functionality) is an option, too.

Originally, I just synced the entire GAL folder and made it read-only so that Outlook stored the local copy of the entire GAL. This does not work well when the GAL size stretches to thousands of records.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Dmitry Streblechenko
Dmitry Streblechenko

Reputation: 66245

You cannot do that - the address book provider can tell Outlook to only allow searches and never display the actual contents of the container.

You cannot do that with an Outlook folder unless you create your own MAPI store provider: then you can return any data you want depending on what the user is doing.

Upvotes: 1

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