I think you may be thinking of it in too difficult a fashion. You don't want
to necessarily communicate directly with outlook, that's difficult as most
browsers try to protect your computer from having a web site talk directly
to it. Browsers do understand MIME types, and they do know where to put
objects. You should be able to craft an item, such as an outlook calendar
appointment, from ASP.Net if you know the correct formatting. An example I
found is at:
http://zones.advisor.com/doc/17330 Other items have similar
formats that you can follow to essentially dump the appropriate text to the
browser and let it figure out where and what to attach it to. This avoids
writing a custom application which would be a relative nightmare since you'd
still have to find some way for that application to communicate both with
Outlook and your system, and ASP.Net wouldn't necessarily do that.
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Hi
We are currently in the process of writing an asp.net application.
As part of the project we need to establish, some sort of communication
between the application and the users Outlook applications.
We have to use Outlook, and not Exchange, as the users are from many
different organisations.
We want to somehow, be able to communicate with the calender, ie.
creating new appointments etc.
How could this be done???
We are talking about writing some sort of application that could be
installed on the client machine, and then perhaps communicate with this
component????
Any suggestions for a plausible solution is more than welcome.