Getting contacts from outlook

Carl-Johan Larsson

Hi,

Im trying to get all the contacts that I have in outlook and writing them to a textbox.

This is my code:

// Obtain an instance of the Outlook application
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

// Access the MAPI namespace
Outlook.NameSpace ns = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");

// Get the user's default contacts folder
Outlook.MAPIFolder contacts = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

// Go through all the folders
foreach (Outlook.Folder folder in contacts.Folders)
{

// Iterate through each contact
for (int i = 1; i < folder.Items.Count + 1; i++)
{

// Get a contact
Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)folder.Items[i];

// Write contact info to textbox
richTextBox1.Text += folder.AddressBookName.ToString() + " " + contact.EntryID + " " + Environment.NewLine;

}
}

But I only get the contacts in the first folder, where am I going wrong?

3 Replies

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Shakti Singh Dulawat10y ago
This should print out all the folders in your outlook including your public folders.
foreach(MAPIFolderfolderinolNS.Folders)
{
GetFolders(folder);
}
publicvoidGetFolders(MAPIFolderfolder)
{
if(folder.Folders.Count==0)
{
Console.WriteLine(folder.FullFolderPath);
}
else
{
foreach(MAPIFoldersubFolderinfolder.Folders)
{
GetFolders(subFolder);
}
}
}
Carl-Johan Larsson10y ago
Hi, thanks for your reply, I have looked at your code, but that only pulls the contacts from the default folder, I have tried that and that works fine, the problem is that I cant get all the contacts from all the folders:I can see that all folders are loaded into the:
foreach (Outlook.Folder folder in contacts.Folders)
But somewhere there is an error.Any suggestions?
Shakti Singh Dulawat10y ago
We have one good article available at our website about it
This article show how to access Outlook Contact list
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/hirendra_singh/accessing-outlook-contacts-list-in-C-Sharp/