Add outlook calendar items with asp.net

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Hi All

Im in urgent situation to add a ms outlook calendar items via asp.net/c#, I could find a sample for this,but it works when sender and receiver are different mail address.
But my requirement is when my customer create a appointment customer's outlook calendar should disaply the appointment with reminder, so basically sender and receiver mail address are same

example - fromaddress - test@mail.com, toaddress - test@mail.com

so this scenario, im only getting Appointment mail, but not saving in a calendar.

but i when i used different mail address as sender, its work fine,

pls help me solve this issue.

Thanks

Regards,
IndSoft

Posted 26-Oct-12 0:30am

slSoftware

Updated 26-Oct-12 0:34am

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[no name] 26-Oct-12 6:37am

What Happens when you use test1@mail.com and test2@mail.com does it save in you calender ?

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 6:49am

hi

thx for ur reply.

when i use same email address for sender and receiver,i just get a mail without saving into calendar.

Thx

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 6:50am

hi
when i use two different mail address, its working fine, saving into calendar in outlook.

[no name] 26-Oct-12 6:58am

pls share a code sippnet. I tried to do it manually in outlook and it worked. so problem can be
1. in your code.
2. in the outlook class.

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 7:00am

hi,

i have also tried it in manually in outlook, its worked for me too, issue is with when run through the code,

[no name] 26-Oct-12 7:03am

When i do it from outlook, i never recieves any email. Don't you feel that it is one of geature of outlook. Why would someone will send himself a appointment ? For reminders the Reminders features can be used.

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 7:09am

Hi
Yes im also never got mail, just with reminder, it saved into calendar, when i did it manually.

but i have tried using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application dll in windows application, there also used same sender and receiver same email address, but in windows it working fine.

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 7:04am

private void SendAppointmentMethod4()
{

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SmtpServer"]);
smtp.Port = int.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SmtpPort"]);

System.DateTime schBeginDate = Convert.ToDateTime("26/10/2012 13:50:00 PM").ToUniversalTime();
System.DateTime schEndDate = Convert.ToDateTime("26/10/2012 13:50:00 PM").ToUniversalTime();

smtp.Send(CreateMeetingRequest(schBeginDate, schEndDate, "SendAppointmentMethod4", "SendAppointmentMethod4", "city", "Test - ASP.NET", "test@mail.com", "test",
"test@mail.com"));
}

public MailMessage CreateMeetingRequest(DateTime start, DateTime end, string subject, string summary,
string location, string organizerName, string organizerEmail, string attendeeName, string attendeeEmail)
{
MailAddressCollection col = new MailAddressCollection();
col.Add(new MailAddress(attendeeEmail, attendeeName));
return CreateMeetingRequest(start, end, subject, summary, location, organizerName, organizerEmail, col);
}

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 7:07am

cant paste all the code here, i have put method by method

this is last mehtod

public MailMessage CreateMeetingRequest(DateTime start, DateTime end, string subject, string summary,
string location, string organizerName, string organizerEmail, MailAddressCollection attendeeList)
{
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();

// Set up the different mime types contained in the message
System.Net.Mime.ContentType textType = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/plain");
System.Net.Mime.ContentType HTMLType = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/html");
System.Net.Mime.ContentType calendarType = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");

// Add parameters to the calendar header
calendarType.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");
calendarType.Parameters.Add("name", "meeting.ics");

// Create message body parts
// create the Body in text format
string bodyText = "Type:Single Meeting\r\nOrganizer: {0}\r\nStart Time:{1}\r\nEnd Time:{2}\r\nTime Zone:{3}\r\nLocation: {4}\r\n\r\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\r\n\r\n{5}";
bodyText = string.Format(bodyText,
organizerName,
start.ToLongDateString() + " " + start.ToLongTimeString(),
end.ToLongDateString() + " " + end.ToLongTimeString(),
System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.StandardName,
location,
summary);

AlternateView textView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(bodyText, textType);
msg.AlternateViews.Add(textView);

//create the Body in HTML format
string bodyHTML = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<META NAME=\"Generator\" CONTENT=\"MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7652.24\">\r\n<TITLE>{0}</TITLE>\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY>\r\n\r\nType:Single Meeting \r\nOrganizer:{1} \r\nStart Time:{2} \r\nEnd Time:{3} \r\nTime Zone:{4} \r\nLocation:{5} \r\n \r\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* \r\n \r\n{6} \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>";
bodyHTML = string.Format(bodyHTML,
summary,
organizerName,
start.ToLongDateString() + " " + start.ToLongTimeString(),
end.ToLongDateString() + " " + end.ToLongTimeString(),
System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.StandardName,
location,
summary);

AlternateView HTMLView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(bodyHTML, HTMLType);
msg.AlternateViews.Add(HTMLView);

slSoftware 26-Oct-12 7:07am

//create the Body in VCALENDAR format
string calDateFormat = "yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ";
string bodyCalendar = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\nMETHOD:REQUEST\r\nPRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange\r\nVERSION:2.0\r\nBEGIN:VTIMEZONE\r\nTZID:(GMT-06.00) Central Time (US & Canada)\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:11\r\nBEGIN:STANDARD\r\nDTSTART:16010101T020000\r\nTZOFFSETFROM:-0500\r\nTZOFFSETTO:-0600\r\nRRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU\r\nEND:STANDARD\r\nBEGIN:DAYLIGHT\r\nDTSTART:16010101T020000\r\nTZOFFSETFROM:-0600\r\nTZOFFSETTO:-0500\r\nRRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU\r\nEND:DAYLIGHT\r\nEND:VTIMEZONE\r\nBEGIN:VEVENT\r\nDTSTAMP:{8}\r\nDTSTART:{0}\r\nSUMMARY:{7}\r\nUID:{5}\r\nATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=\"{9}\":MAILTO:{9}\r\nACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=\"{4}\":MAILTO:{4}\r\nORGANIZER;CN=\"{3}\":mailto:{4}\r\nLOCATION:{2}\r\nDTEND:{1}\r\nDESCRIPTION:{7}\\N\r\nSEQUENCE:1\r\nPRIORITY:5\r\nCLASS:\r\nCREATED:{8}\r\nLAST-MODIFIED:{8}\r\nSTATUS:CONFIRMED\r\nTRANSP:OPAQUE\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:{8}\r\nX-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:{8}\r\nBEGIN:VALARM\r\nACTION:DISPLAY\r\nDESCRIPTION:REMINDER\r\nTRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT00H15M00S\r\nEND:VALARM\r\nEND:VEVENT\r\nEND:VCALENDAR\r\n";
bodyCalendar = string.Format(bodyCalendar,
start.ToUniversalTime().ToString(calDateFormat),
end.ToUniversalTime().ToString(calDateFormat),
location,
organizerName,
organizerEmail,
Guid.NewGuid().ToString("B"),
summary,
subject,
DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString(calDateFormat),
attendeeList.ToString());

AlternateView calendarView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(bodyCalendar, calendarType);
calendarView.TransferEncoding = TransferEncoding.SevenBit;
msg.AlternateViews.Add(calendarView);

// Adress the message
msg.From = new MailAddress(organizerEmail);
foreach (MailAddress attendee in attendeeList)
{
msg.To.Add(attendee);
}
msg.Subject = subject;

return msg;
}

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2012-10-27T23:27:00

Solution 1

All your code looks server side. For ASP.NET, you need to access client outlook for scheduling outlook based item. Have a look at this article and see if it helps: Import and Export Outlook Appointments (using JavaScript)[^]

Posted 27-Oct-12 23:27pm

Sandeep Mewara

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slSoftware 30-Oct-12 0:29am

Hi Sandeep Mewara,

Appreciate your answer for this, but my target platform is iPad, so, is there way to accomplish this from iPad?

Thx