Creating a new contact in Exchange

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Hello Gerhard,

As for creating a new contact in exchange, based on my experience, there're
two possible appraoches:

1. use Outlook COM component to automate the create contact task

2. use exchange WebDav protocol to send http request to create contact

For your scenario, since you're developing in ASP.NET environment,
server-side COM automation is not recommended. I think you may consider
using HttpWebRequest component to send WebDav request to create contact
under a certain user's Contacts directory. Here is a KB article which
provide some code snippet on this:

#How to create a Contact item by using the HttpWebRequest class and the
HttpWebResponse class in Visual Basic .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314190/en-us

and below is my local test code (adjust according to the above kb article):

==========test code============
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Try
Dim text1 As String =
"http://exchange_server_name/Exchange/username/Contacts/new_contact_name.eml
"
Dim uri1 As New Uri(text1)
Dim request1 As HttpWebRequest =
DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(uri1), HttpWebRequest)
Dim text2 As String = "xmlns:g=""DAV:""
xmlns:c=""urn:schemas:contacts:""
xmlns:e=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/""
xmlns:mapi=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/"" xmlns:x=""xml:""
xmlns:cal=""urn:schemas:calendar:"" xmlns:mail=""urn:schemas:httpmail:"">"
Dim text3 As String =
"<c:givenName>JoLynn</c:givenName><c:middlename>Julie</c:middlename><c:sn>Do
bney</c:sn><c:cn>JoLynn J. Dobney</c:cn><mail:subject>JoLynn
Dobney</mail:subject><c:fileas>Dobney,
JoLynn</c:fileas><c:initials>JJD</c:initials><c:nickname>Jo</c:nickname><c:p
ersonaltitle>Mrs.</c:personaltitle><c:namesuffix>MCSD</c:namesuffix>"
Dim text4 As String = "<c:street>Business Address
Information</c:street><c:postofficebox>PO Box
12345</c:postofficebox><c:l>AnyTown</c:l><c:st>WA</c:st><c:postalcode>12345-
1234</c:postalcode><c:co>United States</c:co>"
Dim text5 As String = "<c:homeStreet>Home Address
Information</c:homeStreet><c:homepostofficebox>PO Box
54321</c:homepostofficebox><c:homeCity>SomeTown</c:homeCity><c:homeState>WA<
/c:homeState><c:homePostalCode>12345</c:homePostalCode><c:homeCountry>United
States</c:homeCountry>"
Dim text6 As String = "<c:otherstreet>Other Address
Information said:
FL</c:otherstate><c:otherpostalcode>56789</c:otherpostalcode><c:othercountr
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y>United States</c:othercountry>"
Dim text7 As String =
"<c:mailingaddressid>2</c:mailingaddressid>"
Dim text8 As String =
"<c:telephoneNumber>425-555-0110</c:telephoneNumber><c:telephonenumber2>425-
555-0111</c:telephonenumber2><c:facsimiletelephonenumber>425-555-0112</c:fac
similetelephonenumber><c:homePhone>425-555-0113</c:homePhone><c:homephone2>4
25-555-0114</c:homephone2><c:homefax>425-555-0115</c:homefax><c:otherTelepho
ne>206-555-0111</c:otherTelephone><c:otherfax>206-555-0112</c:otherfax><c:pa
ger>425-555-0116</c:pager><c:mobile>425-555-0117</c:mobile><c:othermobile>20
6-555-0113</c:othermobile><c:internationalisdnnumber>425-555-0118</c:interna
tionalisdnnumber><c:telexnumber>425-555-0119</c:telexnumber><c:ttytddphone>4
25-555-0120</c:ttytddphone><c:callbackphone>425-555-0121</c:callbackphone>"
Dim text9 As String =
"<mapi:email1addrtype>EX</mapi:email1addrtype><mapi:email1emailaddress>/o=Mi
crosoft/ou=First Administrative
Group/cn=Recipients/cn=jdobney</mapi:email1emailaddress><mapi:email1original
displayname>JoLynn Dobney
(Exchange)</mapi:email1originaldisplayname><mapi:email2addrtype>SMTP</mapi:e
mail2addrtype><mapi:email2emailaddress>[email protected]</mapi:email
2emailaddress><mapi:email2originaldisplayname>JoLynn Dobney
(SMTP)</mapi:email2originaldisplayname><mapi:email3addrtype>X400</mapi:email
3addrtype><mapi:email3emailaddress>c=us;a= ; p=Microsoft; o=Exchange;
s=Dobney; g=JoLynn;
i=J;</mapi:email3emailaddress><mapi:email3originaldisplayname>JoLynn Dobney
(X400)</mapi:email3originaldisplayname>"
Dim text10 As String = "<c:o>Fourth Coffee
</c:o><c:organizationmainphone>425-555-0199</c:organizationmainphone><c:busi
nesshomepage>http://www.fourthcoffee.com</c:businesshomepage><c:department>Y
YY</c:department><c:title>Lead Software Design
Engineer</c:title><c:manager>Karan Khanna</c:manager><c:secretarycn>Ken
Myer</c:secretarycn><c:secretaryphone>425-555-0123</c:secretaryphone><c:room
number>C-309</c:roomnumber><c:employeenumber>987654321</c:employeenumber><c:
computernetworkname>jdobney</c:computernetworkname><c:profession>Software
Designer</c:profession>"
Dim text11 As String =
"<c:bday>1974-01-01T08:00:00Z</c:bday><c:weddinganniversary>1995-01-01T08:00
:00Z</c:weddinganniversary><c:spousecn>Barry
Johnson said:
http://www.example.com/JoLynnDobney/default.htm</c:personalHomePage><c:hobb
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ies>Reading, lawn bowling</c:hobbies>"
Dim text12 As String =
"<c:customerid>YYY</c:customerid><c:account>YYY</c:account><c:billinginforma
tion>YYY</c:billinginformation>"
Dim text13 As String =
"<mapi:reminderset>1</mapi:reminderset><mapi:request>Call</mapi:request><map
i:remindertime>2001-12-01T08:00:00Z</mapi:remindertime><mapi:remindernexttim
e>2001-12-01T08:00:00Z</mapi:remindernexttime><e:reply-by-iso>2001-12-01T08:
00:00Z</e:reply-by-iso>"
Dim text14 As String =
"<e:keywords-utf8><x:v>Buddies</x:v><x:v>Engineers</x:v></e:keywords-utf8><m
api:contacts><x:v>Brian Johnson</x:v></mapi:contacts><e:mileage>Rarely used
string
property said:
US
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English</c:language><c:governmentid>000-00-0000</c:governmentid><c:location>
Nowhere
Land</c:location><cal:fburl>http://www.example.com/JoLynnDobney/freebusy</ca
l:fburl><mapi:sensitivity>2</mapi:sensitivity>"
Dim text15 As String = "<e:extensionattribute1>User Data
1</e:extensionattribute1><e:extensionattribute2>User Data
2</e:extensionattribute2><e:extensionattribute3>User Data
3</e:extensionattribute3><e:extensionattribute4>User Data
4</e:extensionattribute4>"
Dim text16 As String = String.Concat(New String() {"<?xml
version='1.0'?><g:propertyupdate ", text2,
"<g:set><g:prop><g:contentclass>urn:content-classes:person</g:contentclass><
e:outlookmessageclass>IPM.Contact</e:outlookmessageclass>", text3, text4,
text5, text6, text7, text8, text9, text10, text11, text12, text13, text14,
text15, "</g:prop></g:set></g:propertyupdate>"})


request1.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
request1.KeepAlive = False
request1.Headers.Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
request1.Headers.Set("Translate", "f")
request1.ContentType = "text/xml"
request1.ContentLength = text16.Length
request1.Timeout = 300000
request1.Method = "PROPPATCH"
Dim buffer1 As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(text16)
request1.ContentLength = buffer1.Length
Dim stream1 As Stream = request1.GetRequestStream
stream1.Write(buffer1, 0, buffer1.Length)
stream1.Close()
Dim response1 As HttpWebResponse =
DirectCast(request1.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse)
Dim text17 As String = response1.StatusCode.ToString
Me.textBox1.Text = (Me.textBox1.Text & ChrW(13) & ChrW(10) &
"Status Code: {0}" & text17)
Dim text18 As String = request1.Headers.ToString
Me.textBox1.Text = (Me.textBox1.Text & ChrW(13) & ChrW(10) &
"headers: " & text18)
Dim stream2 As Stream = response1.GetResponseStream
Dim text19 As String = New StreamReader(stream2).ReadToEnd
Me.textBox1.Text = (Me.textBox1.Text & ChrW(13) & ChrW(10) &
"Response: " & text19)
stream2.Close()
request1 = Nothing
response1 = Nothing
stream1 = Nothing
stream2 = Nothing
Catch exception1 As Exception
Me.textBox1.Text = ("Exception:" & ChrW(13) & ChrW(10) & " " &
exception1.ToString)
End Try
End Sub
========================================

And you can also find similar C# code in the below site:

#Visual C# .NET 2003 KB Article(s)
http://www.kbalertz.com/technology_213_4.aspx


Hope this also helps. If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let
me know.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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