Sync Appointment with Web service

Question

Hi ,

 

I have already an application that is taken care of Appointments’ in a company .This application provides option to create Appointments in Outlook calendar by an Addin.

Certain scenario’s customers will update the appointments in Custom Application rather than Outlook Appointment. So this case I need to do Sync both Appointments’.

 

For this case I am planning to call a web service from Outlook (Ex :Call the sync routine whenever a Calendar owned by the logged in User is visible).I hooping to use the same addin for this purpose.

 

So guys if you have approach or idea for the same kindly replay to the same.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello Johny,

Here, I think you could add a web reference in this add-in project [See: How to: Add and Remove Web References].  And now you could call the method defined in web service. The code sample like this.

            Outlook.Folder folder=this.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders .olFolderCalendar) as Outlook.Folder;
            Outlook.AppointmentItem appointitem=folder.Items.Add(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem) as Outlook.AppointmentItem;
            appointitem.Subject="...";
            ...

            appointitem.Save();

Best regards,
Bessie

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Answer 2

 

Hi

Thank you for your replay J

This is not the problem of calling webservice using webreference, but need to know from where have to call

 

I want to call this service routine from Outlook Addin after the Each Outlook Exchange server update and as well as each Calendar view change

 

Thanks in advance

 

Thanks

Johny

Answer 3

Hello again Johny,

Sorry for mistaking this scenario.

<<I want to call this service routine from Outlook Addin after the Each Outlook Exchange server update and as well as each Calendar view change>>
It seems that you want to trace the updating of the Exchange sever. As far as I know, Outlook object model does not expose such event/method.

I am not sure that it works, just give a suggestion. In outlook object model, I think you could try to use ItemChange event of calendar folder items [See: Items.ItemChange Event], and in this event handler call method of this web service. Also outlook object model has a NameSpace Object related to exchange server [See: NameSpace Object Members]. However, there is no such an event firing when exchange server update. 

For calendar view change, I guess you mean calendar folder switches between Day View, Month View, Week View. Here is a ViewSwitch event [See: Explorer.ViewSwitch Event], which is raised on an Explorer object when the view changes either because the user changed the view using the View menu or because the user selected another folder.

Best regards,
Bessie

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Answer 4

Hi Bessie,

Thank you for your response .Thank you once again


I tried using the View switch event , but it seems firing only to folder switch like clicking on Calendar then Inbox... etc..

I have also tried using BeforeViewSwitch event , but not even firing once

Please see my code below

this.Application.ActiveExplorer().ViewSwitch += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ExplorerEvents_10_ViewSwitchEventHandler(ThisAddIn_ViewSwitch);

//Method

void ThisAddIn_ViewSwitch()

{

throw new NotImplementedException();

}

Thanks

John

Answer 5

Hello again John,

As I mentioned above, here is a ViewSwitch event [See: Explorer.ViewSwitch Event], which is raised on an Explorer object when the view changes either because the user changed the view using the View menu or because the user selected another folder. Using View menu means changing view from View->Current View. Sorry for misleading you, it just does not fire when switching from Day View, Month View, Week View.

In VSTO project, the expression of event needs to be defined as an application-level one. and this event will fire every time. Code like this,

        Outlook.Explorer explorer;
        private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            explorer = this.Application.ActiveExplorer();
            explorer.ViewSwitch += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ExplorerEvents_10_ViewSwitchEventHandler(explorer_ViewSwitch);
        }

Best regards,
Bessie

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