How to: Create Appointments

Applies to
The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office. Project type Application-level projects Microsoft Office version Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

This example creates an appointment and adds recipients to the appointment meeting request.

Example

Private Sub AddAppointment()
    Dim newAppointment As Outlook.AppointmentItem = Me.Application.CreateItem _
         (Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem)
    Try 
        With newAppointment
            .Start = Date.Now.AddHours(2)
            .End = Date.Now.AddHours(3)
            .Location = "ConferenceRoom #2345"
            .Body = _
                "We will discuss progress on the group project."
            .Subject = "Group Project"
            .AllDayEvent = False
            .Recipients.Add("Roger Harui")
            Dim sentTo As Outlook.Recipients = .Recipients
            Dim sentInvite As Outlook.Recipient
            sentInvite = sentTo.Add("Holly Holt")
            sentInvite.Type = Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olRequired
            sentInvite = sentTo.Add("David Junca")
            sentInvite.Type = Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olOptional
            sentTo.ResolveAll()
            .Save()
            .Display(True)
        End With 
    Catch ex As Exception
        MessageBox.Show("The following error occurred: " & _
            ex.Message)
    End Try 
End Sub

private void AddAppointment()
{
    try
    {
        Outlook.AppointmentItem newAppointment =
            (Outlook.AppointmentItem)
        this.Application.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem);
        newAppointment.Start = DateTime.Now.AddHours(2);
        newAppointment.End = DateTime.Now.AddHours(3);
        newAppointment.Location = "ConferenceRoom #2345";
        newAppointment.Body =
            "We will discuss progress on the group project.";
        newAppointment.AllDayEvent = false;
        newAppointment.Subject = "Group Project";
        newAppointment.Recipients.Add("Roger Harui");
        Outlook.Recipients sentTo = newAppointment.Recipients;
        Outlook.Recipient sentInvite = null;
        sentInvite = sentTo.Add("Holly Holt");
        sentInvite.Type = (int)Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType
            .olRequired;
        sentInvite = sentTo.Add("David Junca ");
        sentInvite.Type = (int)Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType
            .olOptional;
        sentTo.ResolveAll();
        newAppointment.Save();
        newAppointment.Display(true);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("The following error occurred: " + ex.Message);
    }
}

See Also

Tasks

How to: Create a Custom Calendar

How to: Add an Entry to Outlook Contacts

Concepts

Working with Calendar Items