Creating an Outlook Contact in Aspose.Email

This migration tip shows how to create a Microsot Outlook contact using Microsoft Office Automation and Aspose.Email. The code sample shows how to set different information of a Contact such as Personal, Professional and Business information. Creating an Outlook contact consists of the following steps:

  1. Creating a Contact object.
  2. Populating or setting the property’s various properties.
  3. Saving the object.

VSTO


 //Create a new MapiContact Object

MapiContact mapiContact = new MapiContact();

//Set different properties of this Contact object

mapiContact.NameInfo = new MapiContactNamePropertySet("Mellissa", "", "MacBeth");

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.Title = "Account Representative";

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.CompanyName = "Contoso Ltd.";

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.OfficeLocation = "36/2529";

mapiContact.Telephones.BusinessTelephoneNumber = "4255551212 x432";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.Street = "1 Microsoft Way";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.City = "Redmond";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.StateOrProvince = "WA";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.PostalCode = "98052";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.Country = "United States of America";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.EmailAddress = "milissa@contoso.com";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.AddressType = "SMTP";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.DisplayName = "Melissa MacBeth (mellissa@contoso.com)";

//Save the Contact object to disc

mapiContact.Save("Contact.vcf", ContactSaveFormat.VCard);

Aspose.Email


 //Create a new MapiContact Object

MapiContact mapiContact = new MapiContact();

//Set different properties of this Contact object

mapiContact.NameInfo = new MapiContactNamePropertySet("Mellissa", "", "MacBeth");

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.Title = "Account Representative";

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.CompanyName = "Contoso Ltd.";

mapiContact.ProfessionalInfo.OfficeLocation = "36/2529";

mapiContact.Telephones.BusinessTelephoneNumber = "4255551212 x432";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.Street = "1 Microsoft Way";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.City = "Redmond";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.StateOrProvince = "WA";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.PostalCode = "98052";

mapiContact.PhysicalAddresses.WorkAddress.Country = "United States of America";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.EmailAddress = "milissa@contoso.com";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.AddressType = "SMTP";

mapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.DisplayName = "Melissa MacBeth (mellissa@contoso.com)";

//Save the Contact object to disc

mapiContact.Save("Contact.vcf", ContactSaveFormat.VCard);

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