How to retrieve a IM field data from a contact?

Locked

Friday, December 26, 2008 3:58 PM

0

Sign In to Vote
How to retrieve a IM field data from a contact?
- Edited by Xiaoyun Li – MSFT Monday, December 29, 2008 11:22 AM

Answers

Friday, December 26, 2008 4:18 PM

As we know, we can use an IPOutlookApp interface to retrieve information from a contact. To retrieve the information we can get the contact folder and use the IContact interface to get each contact item. However the IContact interface doesn't provide a method to get IM, NickName related data.

We can use IItem, which provides getprops method to get IM,NickName fields of data.

Note: You must use the IPOutlookApp2 interface, which adds a GetItemFromOidEx method to get the contact item IItem interface.

Below is a sample:

void CPoomViewTestDlg::OnBnClickedButton3()  

{  

    CoInitializeEx( NULL, 0);  

    IPOutlookApp2 * m_Outlook;  

    HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(_uuidof(Application),   

                      NULL,   

                      CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,  

                      _uuidof(IPOutlookApp),   

                      (LPVOID*)&m_Outlook);  

    m_Outlook->Logon(NULL);  

    //Search contact only  

    IFolder * pFolder=NULL;  

    IPOutlookItemCollection *ipItemCollection=NULL;  

    m_Outlook->GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders::olFolderContacts,&pFolder);  

    int count=0;  

    BSTR firstname;  

    BSTR strIM;  

    if(pFolder)  

    {  

        pFolder->get_Items(&ipItemCollection);  

        if(ipItemCollection)  

        {  

            ipItemCollection->get_Count(&count);  

            //get first contact information  

            IContact *pContact;  

            IItem *pItem;  

            if (SUCCEEDED(ipItemCollection->Item(1,reinterpret_cast<IDispatch**>(&pContact))))  

            {  

                CEOID oid = 0;  

                pContact->get_Oid((long*)&oid);  

                //get IItem interface  

                m_Outlook->GetItemFromOidEx(oid, 0, &pItem);  

            }  

             // TO DO: Add your control notification handler code here  

             HRESULT hr                = E_FAIL;  

             CEPROPVAL *buf            = NULL;  

             ULONG cbBuffer            = 0;  

             HANDLE hHeap              = GetProcessHeap();         

             CEPROPID rgPropId[1];  

             rgPropId[0]               =PIMPR_IM1_ADDRESS;   

             cbBuffer                  = 0;  

             hr                        = pItem->GetProps(rgPropId,CEDB_ALLOWREALLOC,1,&buf,&cbBuffer,hHeap);  

             CEPROPVAL * ppropval      = buf;  

             if(ppropval[0].wFlags!=CEDB_PROPNOTFOUND)  

             {  

                if(LOWORD(ppropval[0].propid) == CEVT_LPWSTR)  

                AfxMessageBox(ppropval[0].val.lpwstr);   

             }  

             HeapFree(hHeap, 0, buf);  

             pContact->Release();  

             pContact = NULL;  

             pItem->Release();  

             pItem=NULL;  

        }  

    }  

    ipItemCollection->Release();  

    ipItemCollection=NULL;  

    pFolder->Release();  

    pFolder = NULL;  

    m_Outlook->Logoff();  

    m_Outlook->Release();  

    m_Outlook = NULL;  

}

We can also use IItem::Edit to open the PIM item for editng in its Edit tab. From the code above, we can see that some functions can be done using IItem , but not using IContact. So if IContact doesn't meet your requirements, you can consider IItem if the IItem interface has the method or property.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowsmobiledev/thread/13bdbcaf-c236-4863-b6dd-64376c7386d8/

For more FAQ about Visual Studio Smart Device Development - Native C++ Project, please see Visual Studio Smart Device Development - Native C++ Project FAQ

Marked As Answer by Xiaoyun Li – MSFT Friday, December 26, 2008 4:20 PM