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Creating an Appointment with the Pocket Outlook Object Model

  • Artikkeli

Question: Using Window Mobile 5 I understand that I can access the Outlook Object model using managed code. One of the requirements for the application that we are writing is that we need to create appointments as part of the application. Do you have an example of this how this can be done?

Answer: Windows Mobile 5 now exposes a managed object model for Pocket Outlook. These classes are available through the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace. You can use the following steps to create an appointment using this namespace.

Note: before trying this code make sure that you have the Windows Mobile 5 SDK installed. More information can be found here.

  1. Create a new Device project as shown above.

  1. Make sure you are using the Windows Mobile Pocket 5 Pocket PC SDK. If you are not sure use the Project – Change Target Platform to validate your platform as shown above.

  1. Drop a button on the emulator as shown above.

  1. Using the My Project set a reference to the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Telephony as shown above.

Behind the button enter the following code:

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim CalAppt As New Appointment

        With CalAppt

            ' set the appointment detail

            .Subject = "Windows Mobile 5 Presentation"

            .Body = "Present to the customer all the cool things that you can do with Windows Mobile 5"

            .Start = New Date(2006, 1, 23, 11, 0, 0)

            .Duration = New TimeSpan(1, 0, 0)

            ' set the reminders

            .ReminderRepeat = True

            .ReminderVibrate = True

        End With

        ' add the appointment to Outlook

        Dim OutSession As New OutlookSession

        With OutSession

            .Appointments.Items.Add(CalAppt)

        End With

    End Sub

End Class

Now you can run the application. When starting the application select the Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Emulator as shown below.

Once the application is started select the button and then check the calendar to confirm that the appointment has been made.

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    February 13, 2006

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