Managing Outlook Items via Aspose.Email Graph Client

Manage Calendar Events

Aspose.Email provides APIs to access, manage, and interact with calendar events. For these purposes, it offers the following methods in the IGraphClient interface:

  • ListCalendars() - Retrieves a collection of calendar information.
  • ListCalendarItems(string id) - Retrieves a collection of calendar items associated with the specified calendar ID.
  • FetchCalendarItem(string id) - Retrieves a specific calendar item based on the provided ID.
  • CreateCalendarItem(string calId, MapiCalendar mapiCalendar) - Creates a new calendar item in the specified calendar.
  • UpdateCalendarItem(MapiCalendar mapiCalendar) - Updates an existing calendar item.
  • UpdateCalendarItem(MapiCalendar mapiCalendar, UpdateSettings updateSettings) - Updates an existing calendar item with specified update settings.

The following code sample demonstrates how to interact with calendar events in a Microsoft Graph API client using the methods provided by Aspose.Email:


// List Calendars
CalendarInfoCollection calendars = graphClient.ListCalendars();

// List Calendar Items
MapiCalendarCollection calendarItems = graphClient.ListCalendarItems("calendarId");

// Fetch Calendar Item
MapiCalendar calendarItem = graphClient.FetchCalendarItem("calendarItemId");

// Create Calendar Item
MapiCalendar newCalendarItem = new MapiCalendar(
    location: "Conference Room",
    summary: "Team Meeting",
    description: "Discuss project status and updates.",
    startDate: startDate,
    endDate: endDate
);

MapiCalendar createdCalendarItem = graphClient.CreateCalendarItem("calendarId", newCalendarItem);

// Update Calendar Item
createdCalendarItem.Location = "Zoom Meeting";
MapiCalendar updatedCalendarItem = graphClient.UpdateCalendarItem(createdCalendarItem);

Manage Message Categories

To manage categories with MS Graph by Aspose.Email for .NET, use the following methods and try the code sample below:

// create a custom category with Orange color
var category = client.CreateCategory("My custom category", CategoryPreset.Preset1);

// fetch a category
var fetchedCategory = client.FetchCategory(category.Id);

// update category (change color to brown)
fetchedCategory.Preset = CategoryPreset.Preset2;
var updatedCategory = client.UpdateCategory(fetchedCategory);

// list available categories
var categories = client.ListCategories();

foreach (var cat in categories)
{
    Console.WriteLine(cat.DisplayName);
}

// delete a category
client.Delete(fetchedCategory.Id);

Manage Contacts

Aspose.Email provides APIs to access, manage, and interact with contact items. For these purposes, it offers the following methods in the IGraphClient interface:

  • ListContacts(string id) - Retrieves a collection of MAPI contacts associated with the specified folder ID.
  • FetchContact(string id) - Retrieves a specific contact based on the provided item ID.
  • CreateContact(string folderId, MapiContact contact) - Creates a new contact in the specified folder.
  • UpdateContact(MapiContact contact) - Updates an existing contact.

The following code sample demonstrates how to interact with contacts in a Microsoft Graph API client using the methods provided by Aspose.Email:

// List Contacts
MapiContactCollection contacts = graphClient.ListContacts("contactFolderId");

// Fetch Contact
MapiContact contact = graphClient.FetchContact("contactId");

// Create Contact
MapiContact newContact = new MapiContact("Jane Smith", "jane.smith@example.com", "XYZ Corporation", "777-888-999");

MapiContact createdContact = graphClient.CreateContact("contactFolderId", newContact);

// Update Contact
createdContact.Telephones.PrimaryTelephoneNumber = "888-888-999";

MapiContact updatedContact = graphClient.UpdateContact(createdContact);

Manage Overrides

To manage overrides with MS Graph by Aspose.Email for .NET, use the following methods:

// Create an user's override
var userOverride = client.CreateOrUpdateOverride
    (new MailAddress("JohnBrown@someorg.com", "JohnBrown"), ClassificationType.Focused);

// list the overrides
var overrides = client.ListOverrides();

// update override
userOverride.Sender.DisplayName = "John Brown";
var updatedOverride = client.UpdateOverride(userOverride);

// delete override
client.Delete(updatedOverride.Id);

Manage Inbox Rules

To manage rules with MS Graph by Aspose.Email for .NET, use the following methods:

// Create a rule
var rule = PrepareRule("user@someorg.com", "User");
var createdRule = client.CreateRule(rule);

// List all rules defined for Inbox
var rules = client.ListRules();

// Fetch a rule
var fetchedRule = client.FetchRule(createdRule.RuleId);

// Update a rule
fetchedRule.DisplayName = "Renamed rule";
fetchedRule.IsEnabled = false;
var updatedRule = client.UpdateRule(createdRule);

// Delete a rule
client.Delete(updatedRule.RuleId);

InboxRule PrepareRule(string email, string displayName)
{
    var rule = new InboxRule()
    {
        DisplayName = "My rule",
        Priority = 1,
        IsEnabled = true,
        Conditions = new RulePredicates(),
        Actions = new RuleActions()
    };

    rule.Conditions.ContainsSenderStrings = new StringCollection { displayName };
    rule.Actions.ForwardToRecipients = new MailAddressCollection
        { new MailAddress(email, displayName, true) };
    rule.Actions.StopProcessingRules = true;

    return rule;
}

Manage OneNote Notebooks

To manage notebooks with MS Graph by Aspose.Email for .NET, use the following methods:

// create a OneNote notebook
var newNotebook = new Notebook()
{
    DisplayName = "My Notebook"
};
var createdNotebook = client.CreateNotebook(newNotebook);

// fetch a notebook
var fetchedNotebook = client.FetchNotebook(createdNotebook.Id);

// list the notebooks
var notebooks = client.ListNotebooks();

Manage Tasks in Microsoft Graph

Aspose.Email provides developers with APIs to access, manage, and interact with users’ tasks and task lists using the following methods of the IGraphClient interface:

The following code sample demonstrates how to manage task lists:

// List Task Lists
var taskLists = graphClient.ListTaskLists();

foreach (var tList in taskLists)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Task List: {tList.DisplayName}");
}

// Get Task List
var taskList = graphClient.GetTaskList("taskListId");

// Delete Task List
graphClient.DeleteTaskList("taskListId");

The following code sample demonstrates how to manage tasks:

// List Tasks in a Task List
MapiTaskCollection tasks = graphClient.ListTasks("taskListId");

// Fetch Task
MapiTask task = graphClient.FetchTask("taskId");

// Create Task
var newTask = new MapiTask
{
    Subject = "New Task",
    DueDate = new DateTime(2023, 12, 31),
    Status = MapiTaskStatus.NotStarted
};

MapiTask createdTask = graphClient.CreateTask(newTask, "taskListUri");

// Update Task
createdTask.Subject = "Updated Task Subject";
MapiTask updatedTask = graphClient.UpdateTask(createdTask);

// Update Task with UpdateSettings
var updateSettings = new UpdateSettings { SkipAttachments  = true };
MapiTask updatedTaskWithSettings = graphClient.UpdateTask(createdTask, updateSettings);
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