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pompair
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
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Hi,
I'm implementing a tool that adds and removes predetermined data to
Outlook's calendar programmatically. The tool (or the results of the
tool) are to be deployed to the clients of an organization via Exchange.
What development tools/APIs I should look into? Visual Basic 6 and CDO?
Any good samples or books on the subject?
Thanks a lot for pointers,
-pom-
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Dan Mitchell
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:28 am Post subject:
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pompair <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:ac6ef.361$h2.152@read3.inet.fi:
| Quote: | I'm implementing a tool that adds and removes predetermined data to
Outlook's calendar programmatically. The tool (or the results of the
tool) are to be deployed to the clients of an organization via Exchange.
What development tools/APIs I should look into? Visual Basic 6 and CDO?
Any good samples or books on the subject?
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VB6 (or C++/Delphi/.net languages) and CDO1.21 will work just fine.
www.cdolive.com is a good place to start, or for books, "Professional CDO
Programming" has info. [disclaimer:I'm a co-author of that, and I'm sure
there are other fine books out there as well]
-- dan |
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pompair
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
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Thanks for pointers, I'll definitely will look them up.
Could you tell me one more thing, a bit of feasilibity study: Is it
possible make an app that runs on Exchange and inserts predetermined
data to all exchange users' calendar within an organization? Where
should the data be written so it'll be transferred to individual
calendars? Is there somekind of "master calendar" within exchange? And
one more: can the calendar items be removed too programmaticaly from the
"master calendar"?
Thanks again!
-pom-
Dan Mitchell kirjoitti:
| Quote: | pompair <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:ac6ef.361$h2.152@read3.inet.fi:
I'm implementing a tool that adds and removes predetermined data to
Outlook's calendar programmatically. The tool (or the results of the
tool) are to be deployed to the clients of an organization via Exchange.
What development tools/APIs I should look into? Visual Basic 6 and CDO?
Any good samples or books on the subject?
VB6 (or C++/Delphi/.net languages) and CDO1.21 will work just fine.
www.cdolive.com is a good place to start, or for books, "Professional CDO
Programming" has info. [disclaimer:I'm a co-author of that, and I'm sure
there are other fine books out there as well]
-- dan |
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Dan Mitchell
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
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pompair <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
news:qFqef.367$0Z.345@read3.inet.fi:
| Quote: | Thanks for pointers, I'll definitely will look them up.
Could you tell me one more thing, a bit of feasilibity study: Is it
possible make an app that runs on Exchange and inserts predetermined
data to all exchange users' calendar within an organization? Where
should the data be written so it'll be transferred to individual
calendars? Is there somekind of "master calendar" within exchange? And
one more: can the calendar items be removed too programmaticaly from
the "master calendar"?
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There's no "master calendar", each mailbox has its own calendar. See
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/scheduleall.htm
for some possible approaches to this sort of thing which might point you
in an easier direction.
Technically, it's certainly possible to write code to loop over
everyone's mailbox and add an item to their calendar, it just has to run
as a user that has access to everyone's mailbox. You could also just send
a meeting invite to everyone using Outlook..
-- dan |
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