Microsoft KB Archive/313802

= How to retrieve contacts by using Outlook Object Model in Visual Basic .NET =

Article ID: 313802

Article Last Modified on 1/17/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q313802



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SUMMARY
 * Create Sample to Retrieve Outlook Contacts

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SUMMARY
The step-by-step article describes how to use the Outlook 10.0 Object Library to retrieve Outlook contacts in Visual Basic .NET.

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Create Sample to Retrieve Outlook Contacts
 Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project. Click Visual Basic Projects under Project Types, and then click Console Application under Templates. By default, Module1.vb is created. Add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library. To do this, follow these steps:  On the Project menu, click Add Reference. Click the COM tab. Click Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library, and then click Select</li> Click OK. If you are prompted to generate wrappers for the library that you selected, click Yes.</li></ol> </li>  In the Code window, replace the default code with the following code: Imports System.Reflection

Module Module1

Sub Main ' Create Outlook application. Dim oApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application

' Get NameSpace and Logon. Dim oNS As Outlook.NameSpace = oApp.GetNamespace(&quot;mapi&quot;) oNS.Logon(&quot;Outlook&quot;, Missing.Value, False, True) ' TODO:

' Get the first contact from the Contacts folder. Dim cContacts As Outlook.MAPIFolder = oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts) Dim oItems As Outlook.Items = cContacts.Items

Dim oCt As Outlook.ContactItem

Try

oCt = oItems.GetFirst

' Display some common properties. Console.WriteLine(oCt.FullName) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Title) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Birthday) Console.WriteLine(oCt.CompanyName) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Department) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Body) Console.WriteLine(oCt.FileAs) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Email1Address) Console.WriteLine(oCt.BusinessHomePage) Console.WriteLine(oCt.MailingAddress) Console.WriteLine(oCt.BusinessAddress) Console.WriteLine(oCt.OfficeLocation) Console.WriteLine(oCt.Subject) Console.WriteLine(oCt.JobTitle)

Catch

Console.WriteLine(&quot;an error occurred&quot;)

Finally

' Display 'oCt.Display(True)

' Log off. oNS.Logoff

' Clean up. oApp = Nothing oNS = Nothing oItems = Nothing oCt = Nothing

End Try

End Sub

End Module </li> Modify the code where you see the TODO comments.</li> Press F5 to build and to run the application.</li> Verify that the first contact is retrieved.</li></ol>

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