Access outlook contacts from C#

[Nightfall]

Hi

I want to get phonenumbers from my outlook contacts. Anyone have any idea how to do this in C#? If you have any tips at all, plz post... I am really stuck here.

Thanks in advance!

[Sahir]

Here is a sample. Create a new Windows Forms project. Add a list box and a button to the form. From menubar select Project|Add Reference. Select the COM tab and add a reference to Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library.

Now add the following code

 private void button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
      Outlook._Application outlook = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
      Outlook.NameSpace ns = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");
     
      Outlook.MAPIFolder cf  =  ns.GetDefaultFolder 
                                              (Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
      Outlook.Items ctcItems =  cf.Items;
      Outlook.ContactItem ctc;
      for(int j = 1; j < (ctcItems.Count + 1); j++) { 
         ctc = (Outlook.ContactItem) ctcItems.Item(j);
         list1.Items.Add(ctc.FullName.ToString());
      } 
  }

This will add the full name from each contact item to the list box.

[Nightfall]

Thanks a lot!

[SanjaySL]

Hi ,

I tried that coding u have poested here.But there is an error.

ctc = (Outlook.ContactItem) ctcItems.Items(j);

There is no Items method in ctcItems.What shall I do?

***BTW I was searching thw net to find "How to access outlook contacts from C# n this answer given by u is the one n only in the net.

Regards

[boudino]

This should work

ctc = (Outlook.ContactItem) ctcItems[j]

And be sure you working with rightversion of Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library.