Two Problems: Hiding Start Menu; Editing contacts in POutlook.

[jdiperla]

Ok my first question is this: How can I hide the Start menu in windows mobile 5 and 6 using system states and such through VB .NET 2008? I was shown how to do it, but I forgot how.


Also for Pocket Outlook.

I want to use a "for each" to loop through every contact and add each contact to a new category that I choose. How can I do that?

I played around with it, I just dont know what to " For Each" and I dont know how, once I loop through the contacts to change the category. So How do I loop through them and how do I add them to a category?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Just so you know this is some code I came up with. But I dont know if its correct:
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Imports System

Imports System.Collections.Generic

Imports System.Text

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook


In the button click command:

Dim outlookSession As New OutlookSession()
Dim contactCollection As ContactCollection = outlookSession.Contacts.Items
Dim contact As Contact = contactCollection(0)

For Each contact in contacts
contact.categories = "Holiday"
contact.update
Next

outlookSession.Dispose()

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Any ideas?

[petevick]

As far as hiding the start menu, there is a great video on screen elements by Jim Wilson here

The other part of your question should be dealt with here

[jdiperla]

I hate to bring up a dead topic. But I really need help. What I am trying to do is create code that will cycle through all my contacts and add the same category to each one until it reaches the last contact.

Here is my code:

Imports System

Imports System.Collections.Generic

Imports System.Text

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook

In my Form load:

Dim outlookSession As New OutlookSession()
Dim intCount As Integer
Dim myContact As ContactCollection = outlookSession.Contacts

 For intCount = 0 To myContacts.Count - 1
contact.categories = "Holiday"
contact.update
        myContact = myContacts.Item(intCount)
   Next

outlookSession.Dispose()

What am I doing wrong? Please help. Thanks in advance.

[petevick]

Are you getting errors?
Is it not working?

What's the problem?

[Lightning]

That code can't work, this might:

Dim outlookSession As New OutlookSession()
Dim intCount As Integer
Dim myContacts As ContactCollection = outlookSession.Contacts
dim myContact as Contact
 For intCount = 0 To myContacts.Count - 1
myContact = myContacts.Item(intCount)
myContact.categories = "Holiday"
myContact.update
        
   Next

outlookSession.Dispose()

[jdiperla]

Yep. I had actually figured it out before you posted. That was the exact code I used. Thanks for your help though.