Microsoft KB Archive/313788

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How to create an appointment by using Outlook Object Model in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

Article ID: 313788

Article Last Modified on 5/19/2005

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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 Q313788

For a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 version of this article, see 220595.

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• SUMMARY
  • Create the Sample to Create an Appointment

SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to create an appointment by using Outlook Object Model in Visual Basic .NET.

Create the Sample to Create an Appointment

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
2. On the File menu, click New, and then click Project.
3. Click Visual Basic Projects under Project Types, and then click Console Application under Templates. By default, Module1.vb is created.
4. Add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. On the Project menu, click Add Reference.
   2. On the COM tab, click Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library, and then click Select.
   3. Click OK in the Add References dialog box to accept your selections. If you are prompted to generate wrappers for the library that you selected, click Yes.

5. In the Code window, replace all of the code with the following:

   Imports System.Reflection
   
   Module Module1
   
       Sub Main()
           ' Create an Outlook application.
           Dim oApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application()
   
           ' Get NameSpace and Logon.
           Dim oNS As Outlook.NameSpace = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi")
           oNS.Logon("YourValidProfile", Missing.Value, False, True) ' TODO:
   
           ' Create a new AppointmentItem.
           Dim oAppt As Outlook.AppointmentItem = oApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem)
           'oAppt.Display(true)  'Modal    
   
           ' Set some common properties.
           oAppt.Subject = "Created using OOM in C#"
           oAppt.Body = "Hello World"
           oAppt.Location = "Samm E"
   
           oAppt.Start = Convert.ToDateTime("11/30/2001 9:00:00 AM")
           oAppt.End = Convert.ToDateTime("11/30/2001 1:00:00 PM")
   
           oAppt.ReminderSet = True
           oAppt.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 5
           oAppt.BusyStatus = Outlook.OlBusyStatus.olBusy  '  olBusy
           oAppt.IsOnlineMeeting = False
   
           ' Save to Calendar.
           oAppt.Save()
   
           ' Display.
           'oAppt.Display(true)
   
           ' Logoff.
           oNS.Logoff()
   
           ' Clean up.
           oApp = Nothing
           oNS = Nothing
           oAppt = Nothing
       End Sub
   
   End Module
                       

   
   

6. Modify the code where you see the TODO comments.
7. Press F5 to build and run the program.
8. Verify that the appointment is created.

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