Howdy
1st, please let me apologise for this being a PIA post, not a VSTO post. If it's inapropriate being here, please just let me know.
Our CEO wants to see all the addresses from the GAL in his Outlook Contacts, principally so he can sync his phone to it.
V Long story short - we already have a process that extracts user details from AD and loads them into a Sql Server db. So we now want to write a process to load that data into his Contacts area under Outlook (2003).
I started writing code (C# VS2005) using the Office PIA set, but hit the Outlook security patch. So I started playing with Redemption to try to get it to work.
Is this the only way to do it
Is there a better way to do it
If I have to use Redemption, how do I save a SafeContactItem The SafeContact object does not expose anything that will allow me to do this.
Any advice or alternatives are very welcome.
Thanks
Alec
Creating Contacts in Outlook
Omarat56
Alec,
If you are deriving your objects from the Application object we serve up to you, you should not hit the Security prompt. If you are deriving your objects outside that context, you will see the prompt, and circumventing it with 3rd party tools is unsupported.
I have listed some great Outlook resources to help you further here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/archive/2005/12/07/vsto_outlook_resourcelist.aspx
John.
Deasun