Creating an Outlook Contact

Office Automation

To use Office Automation, Microsoft Outlook must be installed on the machine that the code runs on. A reference to Outlook.interop.dll is also required.

Programming Samples

The following code snippet creates an Outlook contact in VCard format and saves it to disc using Office Automation.

C#


 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._Application OutlookObject = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

//Create a new Contact Item

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem contact = OutlookObject.CreateItem(

                        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olContactItem);

//Set different properties of this Contact Item.

contact.FirstName = "Mellissa";

contact.LastName = "MacBeth";

contact.JobTitle = "Account Representative";

contact.CompanyName = "Contoso Ltd.";

contact.OfficeLocation = "36/2529";

contact.BusinessTelephoneNumber = "4255551212 x432";

contact.BusinessAddressStreet = "1 Microsoft Way";

contact.BusinessAddressCity = "Redmond";

contact.BusinessAddressState = "WA";

contact.BusinessAddressPostalCode = "98052";

contact.BusinessAddressCountry = "United States of America";

contact.Email1Address = "melissa@contoso.com";

contact.Email1AddressType = "SMTP";

contact.Email1DisplayName = "Melissa MacBeth (mellissa@contoso.com)";

//Save the Contact to disc

contact.SaveAs("OutlookContact.vcf", OlSaveAsType.olVCard); 

Aspose.Email for Java

The samples below use Aspose.Email to create the Outlook contact in VCard format and save it to disc. The example shows how to create a contact using the MapiContact class and setting the contact details in the object before saving the contact.

Programming Samples


//Create a new MapiContact Object
MapiContact mapiContact = new MapiContact();

//Set different properties of this Contact object
mapiContact.setNameInfo(new MapiContactNamePropertySet("Mellissa", "", "MacBeth"));
mapiContact.getProfessionalInfo().setTitle("Account Representative");
mapiContact.getProfessionalInfo().setCompanyName("Contoso Ltd.");
mapiContact.getProfessionalInfo().setOfficeLocation("36/2529");
mapiContact.getTelephones().setBusinessTelephoneNumber("4255551212 x432");
mapiContact.getPhysicalAddresses().getWorkAddress().setStreet("1 Microsoft Way");
mapiContact.getPhysicalAddresses().getWorkAddress().setCity("Redmond");
mapiContact.getPhysicalAddresses().getWorkAddress().setStateOrProvince("WA");
mapiContact.getPhysicalAddresses().getWorkAddress().setPostalCode("98052");
mapiContact.getPhysicalAddresses().getWorkAddress().setCountry("United States of America");
mapiContact.getElectronicAddresses().getEmail1().setEmailAddress("milissa@contoso.com");
mapiContact.getElectronicAddresses().getEmail1().setAddressType("SMTP");
mapiContact.getElectronicAddresses().getEmail1().setDisplayName("Melissa MacBeth (mellissa@contoso.com)");

//Save the Contact object to disc
mapiContact.save("Contact.vcf", ContactSaveFormat.VCard);