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Article ID: 172093

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 2.0
  • Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.1
  • Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects 1.21



This article was previously published under Q172093

SUMMARY

Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 1.1 supports programmatic access to MAPI Address Books through the AddressEntries collection of an AddressList object. Each AddressList object corresponds to a MAPI Address Book and is a member of the AddressLists collection of the Session object.

The available Address Books can be enumerated by walking the AddressLists collection, and an individual address book can be selected by indexing the AddressLists collection by name or by position.

The following sample code walks the AddressLists collection, and displays information about each address book that can be accessed. The second part of the sample selects the global address list (GAL) and then walks the Address Entries, recursively expanding Distribution Lists.

MORE INFORMATION

The following sample code applies to any 32-bit Visual Basic-based product.

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Step-by-step example

  1. Create a new Visual Basic project. Add a reference to the Collaboration Data Objects 1.1 Object Library.
  2. Type the following code into a module.

          Option Explicit
    
          Sub main()
    
              Dim objSession As MAPI.Session        ' Use early binding for
                                                    ' efficiency.
              Dim collAddressLists As AddressLists
              Dim objAddressList As AddressList
              Dim collAddressEntries As AddressEntries
    
              On Error GoTo error_olemsg
    
              ' Create a session and log on.
              Set objSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")
              ' Use a valid Exchange profile name.
              objSession.Logon ("<Your Profile Name Here>")
    
              'Walk the available address books.
              Set collAddressLists = objSession.AddressLists
              For Each objAddressList In collAddressLists
                   ' Display collection selection indices.
                   Debug.Print objAddressList.Name,
                   Debug.Print objAddressList.Index,
                   ' Display the readonly access flag.
                   Debug.Print objAddressList.IsReadOnly,
    
                   ' Display the count of recipients.
                   Set collAddressEntries = objAddressList.AddressEntries
                   Debug.Print Str(collAddressEntries.Count)
                   ' If there are any AddressEntries, display the first recipient name.
                   If Not objAddressList.AddressEntries(1) Is Nothing Then _
                        Debug.Print objAddressList.AddressEntries(1).Name
    
              Next objAddressList
    
              ' Walk the global address list.
              Set collAddressEntries = objSession.AddressLists( _
                       "Global Address List").AddressEntries
              WalkAddressList collAddressEntries
    
              ' Close the session and log off.
              objSession.Logoff
              Exit Sub
    
          error_olemsg:
                   MsgBox "Error " & Str(Err) & ": " & Error$(Err)
                   Exit Sub
    
          End Sub
    
          ' Walk an AddressEntries collection and recursively expand
          ' Distribution Lists.
    
          Sub WalkAddressList(collAddressEntries As AddressEntries)
              Dim objaddressEntry As AddressEntry
    
              For Each objaddressEntry In collAddressEntries
                   ' Display the recipient's name.
                   Debug.Print objaddressEntry.Name,
                   ' Display the recipient's type.
                   Select Case objaddressEntry.DisplayType
                   Case ActMsgUser
                       Debug.Print "Exchange Recipient"
                   Case ActMsgDistList
                       Debug.Print "Distribution List"
                       WalkAddressList objaddressEntry.Members
                       Debug.Print "End of DL " & objaddressEntry.Name
                   Case ActMsgForum
                       Debug.Print "Public Folder"
                   Case ActMsgAgent
                       Debug.Print "Agent"
                   Case ActMsgPrivateDistList
                       Debug.Print "Private DL"
                   Case ActMsgOrganization
                       Debug.Print "Organization"
                   Case ActMsgRemoteUser
                       Debug.Print "Custom Recipient"
                   Case Else
                       Debug.Print "Unknown type"
                   End Select
    
              Next objaddressEntry
    
          End Sub
  3. Visual Basic only: Set Sub Main to run in the Project Properties, and then run the application.

    Other VBA applications: In the Debug/Immediate window, type MAIN, and then press ENTER. The output will appear in the Debug/Immediate window.

Notes

The address book can have restricted entries. Restricted entries will generate an "Access Denied" message:

Error -2147024891: [Collaboration Data Objects - [E_ACCESSDENIED(80070005)]]

The user can include additional error handling where required.

REFERENCES

Documentation for Active Messaging is available in the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library under the following topics:

  • SDK Documentation
  • Platform SDK
  • Databases and Messaging Services
  • Active Messaging

For more information about how to obtain Collaboration Data Objects Libraries, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

171440 Where to acquire the CDO Libraries (all versions)


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