Working with Outlook Contacts using C++ Email Parser Library

Creating, Saving and Reading Contacts

Like MapiMessage, Aspose.Email allows you to create Outlook contacts. The MapiContact class provides all the contact related properties required to create an Outlook contact. This article shows how to create, save and read an Outlook contact using the MapiContact class.

Create and Save Outlook Contact

To create a contact and save it to disc:

1. Instantiate a new object of the MapiContact class.
2. Enter contact property information.
3. Add photo data (if any).
4. Save the contact as MSG or VCard format.

The following code snippet shows you how to create and save outlook contact with C++ Email Parser Library or API.

Reading a MapiContact

The MapiContact class can be used to load both Outlook MSG and VCard format contacts. The following code snippet shows you how to load Outlook contacts saved as MSG and VCF into a MapiContact.

Loading a Contact from MSG

The following code snippet shows you how to loading a contact from MSG.

Loading a Contact from VCard

The following code snippet shows you how to loading a contact from vCard.