SharePoint Contacts List to Outlook 2010

Question

Hello,

We have a SharePoint Contact List that's dynamically generated by values in the query string. I need to write a custom Outlook connector so that our users can add this type of lists to their Outlook clients.  The custom connector would filter the list even more.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a custom connector for SharePoint Calendar Events, and it has this format:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//SharePoint MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:[CALNAME]
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID;TYPE=SharePoint:[EVENT ID]
CREATED:20120411T154122Z
DESCRIPTION: [DESCRIPTION]
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120124T075900Z
DTSTAMP:20120313T181018Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120123
LAST-MODIFIED:20120411T154122Z
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:[SUMMARY]
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
UID:64536
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[STUFF]
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:TRUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

My question is: What's the format for the Contacts List that Outlook reads/imports?  Is it something similar to the example above?  Surely SharePoint sends something like that to Outlook...

 I've spent almost a day and a half searching for a solution but it seems that no one has attempted to do this or, if they've done it, they haven't shared how to do it.

If this question should've been asked in the SharePoint forums.  Please let me know, and I'll ask there.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

i haven;t verified contact list per se, but i guess it will be the same as connecting standard calendar list - outlook will sent UpdateListitems and GetChangesSinceToken to Lists.asmx and translate recieved xml to its own objects. If you want to provide dynamic content for outlook i guess you will have to write http handler that will intercept call to that web service on particular list and return your own virtual data.

Answer 2

Thank you, Damain.

In the next few days I'll give that a try (I'm currently working on other tasks).   If I hopefully find a solution to this, I'll post it here in case someone else can benefit from it.

Answer 3

Hi Dolfint,

Do you have any update?

Have a good day,

Tom

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Tom Xu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Tom,

I haven't had the chance to work on this yet since I am working on other tasks of my project.  As soon as I have the chance to do it, I'll update this thread with any solution (or lack thereof) to this task.

Thanks!

Answer 5

Hi Dolfint,

Ok, I will wait for your response.

Have a good day,

Tom

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Tom Xu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 6

check this link this may help you out

http://support.sherweb.com/Faqs/Show/how-to-integrate-sharepoint-contacts-in-outlook-2007-sharepoint-2010