add/get appointments from calendar

Question

Hi Everybody

is it possible from my Metro app to add new appointments to the calendar ,retrieve or delete from the calendar programatically ?

another question

can i - programatically - turn the flash light on/off?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

The calendar is the Live calendar so you can ask on the Live developers forums how to access the calendar using their api's.  Here is a link to the live SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx.  You cannot communicate directly between Metro style applications and Calendar does not implement the Share contract so that would be your only options.

Flash light?  What do you mean?

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

Thanks jpsanders

i mean the led flash light for the camera

can i control it by code?

Answer 3

The end user has control over the settings in the camera options UI to change camera settings (as provided by the device manufacturer).  There is no programmatic way to set these options other than the ones you see listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br226738.aspx

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 4

Thanks and i appreciate your help :)

Answer 5

This has actually been addressed in 8.1 with the new Appointments APIs that any app can use to add, remove or replace appointments in the user's calendar by interacting with the preinstalled Calendar app.

Sample: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Appointments-API-sample-2b55c76e

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Nick Eubanks (MSFT)