Retrieving MS Outlook Contacts - C# Discussion Boards

15-Oct-07 4:34

Hi I am writing an application which retrieves your outlook contacts.
Right now I am able pop up the contacts window of the Outlook, but I want the specific fields to be printed in my checkedlistbox

I used the following code to pop up the contacts window. Now I want to get he name+last name and the fax number to printed in my chckedlistbox. But I cant find the object under OutlookItems to print the whole contacts list. Any Help?

try
{
Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();

// Get the NameSpace information.
Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");

// Log on by using a dialog box to choose the profile.
oNS.Logon(System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, true, true);

// Get the default Contacts folder.
Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts = oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

// Get the Items collection from the folder.
Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;

// Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
Outlook.ContactItem oCt = (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetLast();

string faxNum;
faxNum = oCt.BusinessFaxNumber.Replace("(", "").Replace(")", "").Replace("-", "").Replace(" ", "");
this.txtRecipientFax.Text = faxNum;

// Display the contact.
//oCt.Display(true);

led mike15-Oct-07 4:44

15-Oct-07 4:44

s3rro wrote:
But I cant find the object under OutlookItems to print the whole contacts list.

They hide that information in the documentation[^]

s3rro15-Oct-07 5:02

15-Oct-07 5:02

I read the document.
I can get the first/last contact. I tried most of them to list the whole Outlook Contacts, list none worked, thats why i asked it here.

Thanks

led mike15-Oct-07 5:11

15-Oct-07 5:11

s3rro wrote:
I tried most of them to list the whole Outlook Contacts, list none worked

I have no idea what that means ????

s3rro15-Oct-07 5:17

15-Oct-07 5:17

Ok,
When i run the code with getLast or getFirst "(Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetLast();" everything is good, it pops up Outlook contacts window with the last contact in the list. But you are not able to go up and down on your contacts list.
Normally when you open the contacts window from the Outlook you are able go up/down to check the other contacts.

Now i am looking for the object to view the "main outlook contacts window" or a way to print the whole outlook contacts to a textbox (with whatever i need from the contacts name+lastname phonenumbers) I have in my application.

Justin Perez15-Oct-07 5:23

Justin Perez

15-Oct-07 5:23

s3rro wrote:
Ok,
When i run the code with getLast or getFirst "(Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetLast();" everything is good, it pops up Outlook contacts window with the last contact in the list. But you are not able to go up and down on your contacts list.
Normally when you open the contacts window from the Outlook you are able go up/down to check the other contacts.

Now i am looking for the object to view the "main outlook contacts window" or a way to print the whole outlook contacts to a textbox (with whatever i need from the contacts name+lastname phonenumbers) I have in my application.

I have no idea what you mean as I have not read the documentation. But, I would image that it would require some iteration to get every single contact from the address book.

I would think something like:

for(int i = 0; i < (oItems.Items.Count; i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.format("Contact {0}'s name is: {1}", i.ToString(), oItems.Items[i].ContactName));
}

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led mike15-Oct-07 5:24

15-Oct-07 5:24

s3rro wrote:
But you are not able to go up and down on your contacts list.

What does that mean? State your problem specifically, can you do that?

s3rro15-Oct-07 5:36

15-Oct-07 5:36

ok, In outlook when you open your contacts ( go>contacts or ctrl+3)
then click on a contact on the new window you have up/down arrows to go to the previous and the next contact.Those buttons do not function when i open the contacts window with
"Outlook.ContactItem oCt = (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetLast();"
or
"Outlook.ContactItem oCt = (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetFirst();"

then I planned to print my whole outlook contacts to checkedtextbox in my application but couldnt find the what the "Outlook - whole contact list" is called to print it to my textbox.

up/down buttons on the contacts window is = previous and the next item from the contacts list.

Thanks for your help in advance

Justin Perez15-Oct-07 5:50

Justin Perez

15-Oct-07 5:50

s3rro wrote:
ok, In outlook when you open your contacts ( go>contacts or ctrl+3)
then click on a contact on the new window you have up/down arrows to go to the previous and the next contact.Those buttons do not function when i open the contacts window with
"Outlook.ContactItem oCt = (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetLast();"
or
"Outlook.ContactItem oCt = (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.GetFirst();"

then I planned to print my whole outlook contacts to checkedtextbox in my application but couldnt find the what the "Outlook - whole contact list" is called to print it to my textbox.

up/down buttons on the contacts window is = previous and the next item from the contacts list.

I think I understand what you want to do. You want to add every contact from your list to a checked-text box. Create a "contact" object. Then iterate through the items in the object, strip out what you want/need and add it to your controls. Is that what you want to do?

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s3rro15-Oct-07 6:02

15-Oct-07 6:02

Yes thats what exactly I want to do.

I want to strip out the parts that i dont need from the Outlook Contacts. I ll keep the name+last name and phone number fields and print it to a checkedlistbox in my application.

Thank you

Justin Perez15-Oct-07 6:07

Justin Perez

15-Oct-07 6:07

Ah I see now. See led mike's post below, he posted a link showing how to do exactly what you want to do.

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led mike15-Oct-07 5:59

15-Oct-07 5:59

s3rro wrote:
but couldnt find the what the "Outlook - whole contact list" is called to print it to my textbox.

Ah.... see this[^]

s3rro15-Oct-07 9:16