I see. Well, I have a winform App, in C#... and this code works fine for me.
One thing I am trying to get that is the Contacts selected by the user.
when I look at Contacts property is gives me gibberish... I am guessing it
should be a collection of sorts..
> Nice code thanks for sharing that's a good point OOM is the only currently
> supported API that allows you to create tasks. The main problem with OOM
> however is that its not suitable for use in Automation code so its not a
> good choice if you want to use it say in a ASP.NET application.But if you
> dont have those problems its a good choice.
> Cheers
> Glen
> "Alex" <Alex.A...@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:eaSIPPQxFHA.2620@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Glen,
>> Maybe I am missing something, but why not look the OOM?
>> Try this code:
>> {
>> Outlook.ApplicationClass oApp = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
>> Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace( "MAPI" );
>> Outlook.MAPIFolder oFolder = oNS.GetDefaultFolder(
>> Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olPublicFoldersAllPublicFolders );
>> Outlook.MAPIFolder oPublicTaskFolder = oFolder.Items.Item(
>> "MyPublicTaskFolder" );
>> Outlook._Items oItems = oPublicTaskFolder.Items;
>> Outlook._TaskItem oTask = (Outlook._TaskItem) oItems.Add(
>> "IPM.Task" );
>> oTask.Subject = "My Subject";
>> oTask.Body = "Notes and other text go here";
>> oTask.StartDAte = DateTime.Now;
>> oTask.DueDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(7); //Due a week from now
>> oTask.Save();
>> // et voila!
>> // now clean up and you're set to go.
>> oTask = null;
>> oApp = null;
>> GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
>> GC.Collect();
>> }
>> You'd need to add Outlook to your references.
>> Alex
>> "Glen Scales [MVP]" <gsca...@outlookexchange.com> wrote in message
>> news:eRfaF4IxFHA.3720@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> There are two methods you could use both are kind of work arounds
>>> because none of the current Exchange API's really support task. If you
>>> can run your code locally then you could create interop dlls for CDOEX
>>> and ADODB then use Exoledb to create the tasks. Otherwise you can use
>>> the native .NET classes and use WebDAV to create the tasks which will
>>> work remotely. Eg something like this should work (this is base on a SDK
>>> sample for creating appointments via webdav
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3...)
>>> {
>>> // Variables.
>>> string strExchSvrName = "";
>>> string strMailbox = "";
>>> string strTaskUri = "";
>>> string strTaskItem = "";
>>> string strDomain = "";
>>> string strUserName = "";
>>> string strPassword = "";
>>> string strApptRequest = "";
>>> string strMailInfo = "";
>>> string strTaskInfo = "";
>>> string strXMLNSInfo = "";
>>> string strHeaderInfo = "";
>>> System.Net.HttpWebRequest PROPPATCHRequest = null;
>>> System.Net.WebResponse PROPPATCHResponse = null;
>>> System.Net.CredentialCache MyCredentialCache = null;
>>> byte[] bytes = null;
>>> System.IO.Stream PROPPATCHRequestStream = null;
>>> try
>>> {
>>> strExchSvrName = "servername";
>>> strMailbox = "mailbox";
>>> strTaskItem = "testtask.eml";
>>> strTaskUri = "http://" + strExchSvrName + "/exchange/"
>>> + strMailbox + "/tasks/";
>>> // User name and password of appointment creator.
>>> strUserName = "user";
>>> strDomain = "domain";
>>> strPassword = "password";
>>> // XML namespace info for the WebDAV request.
>>> strXMLNSInfo = "xmlns:g=\"DAV:\" "
>>> + "xmlns:e=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/\" "
>>> + "xmlns:mapi=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/\" "
>>> + "xmlns:mapit=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/\" "
>>> + "xmlns:dt=\"urn:uuid:c2f41010-65b3-11d1-a29f-00aa00c14882/\" "
>>> +
>>> "xmlns:h=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062003-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/\"
>>> "
>>> +
>>> "xmlns:i=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062008-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/\"
>>> "
>>> + "xmlns:header=\"urn:schemas:mailheader:\" "
>>> + "xmlns:mail=\"urn:schemas:httpmail:\"";
>>> strTaskInfo = "<h:0x00008104
>>> dt:dt=\"dateTime.tz\">2005-09-29T00:00:00Z</h:0x00008104>"
>>> + "<h:0x00008105
>>> dt:dt=\"dateTime.tz\">2005-09-29T00:00:00Z</h:0x00008105>"
>>> + "<h:0x0000811C dt:dt=\"boolean\">0</h:0x0000811C>"
>>> + "<h:0x00008101 dt:dt=\"int\">0</h:0x00008101>"
>>> + "<h:0x00008102 dt:dt=\"float\">0</h:0x00008102>"
>>> + "<i:0x00008503 dt:dt=\"boolean\">1</i:0x00008503>";
>>> strHeaderInfo = "<header:to>" + strMailbox + "</header:to>";
>>> strMailInfo = "<mail:subject>Test Task Subject</mail:subject>"
>>> + "<mail:htmldescription>Test Description</mail:htmldescription>";
>>> // Build the XML body of the PROPPATCH request.
>>> strApptRequest = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
>>> + "<g:propertyupdate " + strXMLNSInfo + ">"
>>> + "<g:set><g:prop>"
>>> + "<g:contentclass>urn:content-classes:task</g:contentclass>"
>>> + "<e:outlookmessageclass>IPM.Task</e:outlookmessageclass>"
>>> + strMailInfo
>>> + strTaskInfo
>>> + strHeaderInfo
>>> + "</g:prop></g:set>"
>>> + "</g:propertyupdate>";
>>> MyCredentialCache = new System.Net.CredentialCache();
>>> MyCredentialCache.Add( new System.Uri(strTaskUri),
>>> "NTLM",
>>> new System.Net.NetworkCredential(strUserName, strPassword,
>>> strDomain)
>>> );
>>> PROPPATCHRequest =
>>> (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(strTaskUri +
>>> strTaskItem);
>>> PROPPATCHRequest.Credentials = MyCredentialCache;
>>> PROPPATCHRequest.Method = "PROPPATCH";
>>> bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes((string)strApptRequest);
>>> PROPPATCHRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
>>> PROPPATCHRequestStream = PROPPATCHRequest.GetRequestStream();
>>> PROPPATCHRequestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
>>> PROPPATCHRequestStream.Close();
>>> PROPPATCHRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
>>> PROPPATCHResponse =
>>> (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)PROPPATCHRequest.GetResponse();
>>> PROPPATCHResponse.Close();
>>> Console.WriteLine("Task successfully created.");
>>> }
>>> catch(Exception ex)
>>> {
>>> Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
>>> }
>>> }
>>> Cheers
>>> Glen
>>> "Lorenzo Soncini" <lorenzo.sonc...@technoservice.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Or0af01wFHA.3860@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hy,
>>>> how can I create a task in a public folder using .NET ?
>>>> Lorenzo Soncini
