Working with Outlook Tasks

Creating, Saving and Reading Tasks

Aspose.Email for .NET allows you to create Outlook tasks and save them to MSG format. The MapiTask class provides a number of properties such as PercentComplete, EstimatedEffort, ActualEffort, History, LastUpdate, and others, to accommodate and set information required for an Outlook task. This article shows how to create, save and read a MapiTask from disk. To create and save a task to disk:

1. Instantiate a new object of the MapiContact class.
2. Enter task property information.
3. Save the task to disc in MSG format.

The following code snippet shows you how to create, save and read Tasks.

Reading a MapiTask

The MapiContact class object is used to cast the MapiMessage object that loads a task from the disk as MSG format. The following code snippet shows you how to read a MapiTask.

Reading a VToDo Task

Google Tasks exported in iCalendar format as VToDo events can be loaded using the MapiTask class as shown in the following code sample. The following code snippet shows you how to read a VToDo Task.

Adding Reminder Information to a MapiTask

Similar to Microsoft Outlook, Aspose.Email can add reminder information to a MapiTask. The following code snippet shows you how to add reminder information to a MapiTask.

Adding Attachments to a MapiTask

The following code snippet shows you how to add attachments to a MapiTask.

Adding Recurrence to MapiTask

Aspose.Email allows creating a recurring task where the recurrence can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. The following code snippet shows you how to create a task with different recurrence types.

Converting Task to MHT

Aspose.Email can generate MailMessage like output during the conversion of a MapiTask to MHT.