Problems creating real contacts with WebDAV

[dawie]

I'm using WebDav to create new contacts on an exchange server in a
personal contact folder.
When I write an email to one of that created contact (by i.g.writing
the last name of that contact) outlook does'nt offer me completition
of that name - neither knows that contact. when i manually create a
new contact in the same folder, everything work's as expected.
is there a special contact property to activate that completition
feature or are the some special settings in outlook needed?

Thanks,
David

[a@tleederbyshired.0.tc.0.m Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

"dawie" <pop...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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It would help to see the code you are using. Contacts have a /lot/ of
addressing properties, one of which you could easily have overlooked.

Lee.

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[dawie]

On Jul 6, 5:40 pm, "Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" <email a@t leederbyshire d.

This is my method for inserting new contacts:

public void insertContact(iadrblue_SoapInterfaceOutlookKontaktStruct
contact) {
try {
string sUri = exchangeServer + "/" + exchangePath + "/" +
contact.FirstName + "%20" + contact.LastName + "-" + contact.Id +
".eml";
logger.Debug(" * " + "Creating new contact: " + sUri);

System.Uri myUri = new System.Uri(sUri);
HttpWebRequest HttpWRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
(myUri);

// Der komplette Name, kommasepariert
string completeName = "";
if (contact.LastName != "") {
completeName += contact.LastName;
}
if (contact.FirstName != "") {
if (contact.LastName != "") {
completeName += ", ";
}
completeName += contact.FirstName;
}

// Querystring mit allen Infos zusammenbauen
string sQuery = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>" +

"<g:propertyupdate xmlns:g='DAV:' xmlns:c='urn:schemas:contacts:'
xmlns:e='http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/' xmlns:mapi='http://
schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/' xmlns:x='xml:'
xmlns:cal='urn:schemas:calendar:' xmlns:mail='urn:schemas:httpmail:'>"
+
"<g:set><g:prop>" +
"<g:contentclass>urn:content-classes:person</g:contentclass>" +

"<e:outlookmessageclass>IPM.Contact</e:outlookmessageclass>" +

"<c:fileas>" + completeName + "</c:fileas>"
+
"<c:givenName>" + contact.FirstName + "</
c:givenName>" +
"<c:sn>" + contact.LastName + "</c:sn>" +
"<c:cn>" + contact.FirstName + " " +
contact.LastName + "</c:cn>" +
"<c:personaltitle>" + contact.Title + "</
c:personaltitle>" +

"<c:street>" + contact.BusinessStreet + "</c:street>"
+
"<c:l>" + contact.BusinessCity + "</c:l>" +
"<c:postalcode>" + contact.BusinessPostalCode + "</
c:postalcode>" +
"<c:co>" + contact.BusinessCountry + "</c:co>" +

"<c:department>" + contact.Department + "</
c:department>" +
"<c:title>" + contact.JobTitle + "</c:title>" +
"<c:profession>" + contact.Position + "</
c:profession>" +
"<c:secretarycn>" + contact.AssistantsName + "</
c:secretarycn>" +
"<c:secretaryphone>" + contact.AssistantsPhone + "</
c:secretaryphone>" +

"<c:otherstreet>" + contact.OtherStreet + "</
c:otherstreet>" +
"<c:othercity>" + contact.OtherCity + "</
c:othercity>" +
"<c:otherpostalcode>" + contact.OtherPostalCode + "</
c:otherpostalcode>" +
"<c:othercountry>" + contact.OtherCountry + "</
c:othercountry>" +
"<c:otherfax>" + contact.OtherFaxNumber + "</
c:otherfax>" +

"<c:telephoneNumber>" + contact.BusinessPhone + "</
c:telephoneNumber>" +
"<c:telephonenumber2>" + contact.Business2TelephoneNumber + "</
c:telephonenumber2>" +
"<c:facsimiletelephonenumber>" + contact.BusinessFax + "</
c:facsimiletelephonenumber>" +

"<c:homePhone>" + contact.HomePhone + "</c:homePhone>" +
"<c:homephone2>" + contact.HomePhone2 + "</c:homephone2>" +
"<c:homefax>" + contact.HomeFaxNumber + "</c:homefax>" +
"<c:mobile>" + contact.MobilePhone + "</c:mobile>" +

"<c:businesshomepage>" + contact.WebPage + "</c:businesshomepage>"
+
"<c:birthday>" + contact.Birthday + "</c:birthday>" +

"<c:mailingaddressid>2</c:mailingaddressid>" +
"<c:o>" + contact.Company + "</c:o>" +

"<mail:subject>" + contact.FirstName + " " + contact.LastName + "</
mail:subject>" +

"<mapi:email1addrtype>SMTP</mapi:email1addrtype>" +
"<mapi:email1emailaddress>" + contact.EmailAddress + "</
mapi:email1emailaddress>" +
"<mapi:email1originaldisplayname>" + contact.EmailAddress + "</
mapi:email1originaldisplayname>" +

"<mapi:email2addrtype>SMTP</mapi:email2addrtype>" +
"<mapi:email2emailaddress>" + contact.Email2Address + "</
mapi:email2emailaddress>" +
"<mapi:email2originaldisplayname>" + contact.Email2Address + "</
mapi:email2originaldisplayname>" +

"<mapi:email3addrtype>SMTP</mapi:email3addrtype>" +
"<mapi:email3emailaddress>" + contact.Email3Address + "</
mapi:email3emailaddress>" +
"<mapi:email3originaldisplayname>" + contact.Email3Address + "</
mapi:email3originaldisplayname>" +

"</g:prop></g:set>" +
"</g:propertyupdate>";

// Set the credentials.
NetworkCredential myCred = new NetworkCredential(userName,
userPasswd);
CredentialCache myCredentialCache = new CredentialCache();
myCredentialCache.Add(myUri, "Basic", myCred);
HttpWRequest.Credentials = myCredentialCache;

// Set the headers.
HttpWRequest.KeepAlive = false;
HttpWRequest.Headers.Set("Pragma", "no-cache");
HttpWRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
HttpWRequest.ContentLength = sQuery.Length;

//Set the request timeout to 5 minutes.
HttpWRequest.Timeout = 300000;

// set the request method
HttpWRequest.Method = "PROPPATCH";

// Store the data in a byte array.
byte[] ByteQuery = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes
(sQuery);
HttpWRequest.ContentLength = ByteQuery.Length;
Stream QueryStream = HttpWRequest.GetRequestStream();

// write the data to be posted to the Request Stream
QueryStream.Write(ByteQuery, 0, ByteQuery.Length);
QueryStream.Close();

// Send the request and get the response,
HttpWebResponse HttpWResponse = (HttpWebResponse)
HttpWRequest.GetResponse();

// Get the Status code
int iStatCode = (int)HttpWResponse.StatusCode;
string sStatus = iStatCode.ToString();
logger.Debug(" * " + "Status Code: " + sStatus);

// Get the request headers
string sReqHeaders = HttpWRequest.Headers.ToString();

// Read the Response Steam
Stream strm = HttpWResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(strm);
string sText = sr.ReadToEnd();

// Close the stream.
strm.Close();

// Clean up
myCred = null;
myCredentialCache = null;
HttpWRequest = null;
HttpWResponse = null;
QueryStream = null;
strm = null;
sr = null;

} catch (Exception e) {
logger.Error("Fehler beim Anlegen eines Kontaktes: " +
e.Message + ", " + e.StackTrace);
}
}

David

[a@tleederbyshired.0.tc.0.m Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

The only property I can see that is missing (compared to what I usually do)
is:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/emaillisttype

which I usually set to 1. I would suggest adding this line, just before you
set the three email addresses:

<mapi:emaillisttype>1</mapi:emaillisttype>" +

Lee.

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"dawie" <pop...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[dawie]

...and that was the missing property - thank you so much!!

It's so interesting that MS does'nt make mention of that property in
their article "How to create Contact items in Visual C# on a computer
that is running Exchange 2000 Server" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/
313119).

David

On Jul 7, 2:50 pm, "Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" <email a@t leederbyshire d.

0.t c.0.m> wrote:
> The only property I can see that is missing (compared to what I usually do)
> is:
>
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/emaillisttype
>
> which I usually set to 1.  I would suggest adding this line, just before you
> set the three email addresses:
>
> <mapi:emaillisttype>1</mapi:emaillisttype>" +
>
> Lee.
>
> --
> ______________________________________
>

[a@tleederbyshired.0.tc.0.m Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

It's kind of a tradition that Exchange API documentation has at least /some/
of the important information missing. :-) When people get too good at it,
they'll scrap it and replace it with another one.

Lee.

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