[RESOLVED] Access Contacts in a Public Folder?

Hi,

I started working with VBA about a month ago. I come from a non-Microsoft background (Java, JSP) so I was not familiar with Microsoft's APIs, and at this point I have barely scratched the surface.

I'm currently working on an Microsoft Access 2003 application that needs to access contact information stored in an Outlook 2003 public folder.

I have used CDO to access the global and personal contact lists successfully. However, the contacts I need to access are several subfolders deep in Public Folders. First of all, is it possible to access this contact list with CDO? Secondly, can you point me to a tutorial that will at least explain the basics of how to do so?

Thanks!

Welcome to the Forums.

I dont use CDO that much but I can do it with the Outlook Object Model.

You need to recursively navigate down the folder structure to the destination folder. Just like you do with local private folders. Just use the "Public Folders" and then "All Public Folders". Then keep going down each folder level until you get to the desired folder.

Thanks! Having an API to research helps a lot. I'll post the code I came up with soon.

I'll save you some time, but I dont have Exchange available right now so this is from memory.

VB Code:

Private Sub GetPublicContacts()
    Dim oApp As Outlook.Application
    Dim oFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Dim oItems As Outlook.Items
    Dim i As Integer
    Set oApp = Application
    Set oFolder = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").Folders("Public Folders").Folders("All Public Folders").Folders("SomePublicFolder")
    Set oItems = oFolder.Items
    'Assumes all items are ContactItems
    For i = 1 To oItems.Count
        MsgBox oItems.Item(i).FullName
    Next
    Set oItems = Nothing
    Set oFolder = Nothing
    Set oApp = Nothing
End Sub

Thanks! That's more or less exactly what I did. I just populated a list box with some of the information from the contacts.

At what point does this method take a noticible performance hit? 100 contacts? 1000?

Anytime you iterate through an Outlook collection it will be a performance drain. It will also depend on your network, server, and workstation performance.

Here is the code (lv_Profile_List is a MS Common Controls 6.0 ListView):

VB Code:

Private Sub GetDataFromOutlook()
    On Error GoTo Catch
    
    ' Clear the ListView Control
    lv_Profile_List.ListItems.Clear
 
    ' Variables
    Dim oFolder As mapiFolder
    Dim profileItems As Items
    Dim cnt As Integer
    Dim lvItm As ListItem
    
    ' Get to the folder containing the profiles
    Set oFolder = getProfileFolder()
 
    ' Get the first profile and prepare to iterate through the Items list
    Set profileItems = oFolder.Items
    
    ' Run through the list and populate the ListView Control
    For cnt = 1 To profileItems.Count
        Set lvItm = lv_Profile_List.ListItems.Add(, , cnt)
        
        lvItm.SubItems(1) = profileItems.Item(cnt).FullName
        lvItm.SubItems(2) = profileItems.Item(cnt).BusinessTelephoneNumber
        lvItm.SubItems(3) = profileItems.Item(cnt).BusinessFaxNumber
        lvItm.SubItems(4) = profileItems.Item(cnt).BusinessAddressCity
        lvItm.SubItems(5) = profileItems.Item(cnt).BusinessAddressState
        
        Set lvItm = Nothing
    Next cnt
    
    Exit Sub
    
Catch:
    If Err.Number = 91 Then
        Resume Next
    Else
        MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, vbOKOnly + vbExclamation
    End If
End Sub
 
Private Function getProfileFolder() As mapiFolder
    Dim profFolder As mapiFolder
    Set profFolder = moNS.GetDefaultFolder(olPublicFoldersAllPublicFolders)
    Set profFolder = profFolder.Folders("A Deeper Folder")
    Set profFolder = profFolder.Folders("The Contact Items Folder")
    
    Set getProfileFolder = profFolder
End Function

Thanks again :)