Can we access system calendar through a metro app devloped in JS HTML5 and CSS3?

Question

I am developing a metro app in which i want to create a scheduler so is it possible to access calendar app which come with windows 8. I am using JS HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Answer 1

I don't think there is currently an API for accessing data from the calendar app that comes with Windows 8.

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Dave Paquette @Dave_Paquette www.davepaquette.com

Answer 2

Not directly to the app, that would be digging out of the sandbox.

The calendar is just a frontend app for your Hotmail calendar, and you can interact with that calendar by going through the cloud:

http://isdk.dev.live.com/ISDK.aspx?category=scenarioGroup_hotmail&index=2

 

Answer 3

I would assume that the final version of the app would be capable of connecting to a number of different calendar sources:  Hotmail, Exchange, Google Calendar, etc.  

As app developers we would not want to try integrating with all those sources.  I am hoping there will be an API for interacting with the calendar similar to what is available in Windows Phone 7 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh286421(v=vs.92).aspx )

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Dave Paquette @Dave_Paquette www.davepaquette.com

Answer 4

I dearly hope the different MSFT internal teams understand how important it is now to offer contracts from their app. For the calendar app it means to act as a sharing target for http://schema.org/Event JSON buckets. If they do not offer that, every app has to code calendar integration from scratch, again.

I am checking every update of the "Modern Calendar" app and so far the app manifest does not describe it as share target for *anything* at all.

Same with the People app... Let it share vCards in and out.