Enumerating Outlook ContactItem properties

c#, contactitem, enumeration, outlook, reflection

Solution

you do not need to to define the interfaces manually. Just add a reference to "Microsoft Outlook XX.0 Class Library" to your C# project, and then use code similar to this:

using System;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

namespace OutlookTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Outlook.Application olApplication = new Outlook.Application();

            // get nameSpace and logon.
            Outlook.NameSpace olNameSpace = olApplication.GetNamespace("mapi");
            olNameSpace.Logon("Outlook", "", false, true);

            // get the contact items
            Outlook.MAPIFolder _olContacts = olNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
            Outlook.Items olItems = _olContacts.Items;

            foreach (object o in olItems)
            {
                if (o is Outlook.ContactItem)
                {
                    Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)o;
                    foreach (Outlook.ItemProperty property in contact.ItemProperties)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(property.Name + ": " + property.Value.ToString());
                    }
                }
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

Hope this helps.

-- Frank

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