Hi there, Does anyone know if it is possible to import Outlook contacts or people from your MSN or AOL list into a Flash application? I want to use this for a birthday calender I am building where you can send an email to a friend asking for his or her birthday. It would be nice if people could add a lot of emails at once without having to type them all in manually....
Wouter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheng Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:32 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Updating MS Outlook calendar from Flash app James Johnson wrote: > Is it possible to create a calendar application in Flash which allows > the user to click on an event and to have that event automatically added > to their MS Outlook calendar? You can, but it's rather tricky. Microsoft closely guards their proprietary ActiveSync protocol used for sync'ing external applications and devices with Exchange Server. While a number of large phone and device manufacturers have licensed the protocol recently, this probably out of reach to all but the largest of clients. Failing that, there's several other options available. The simplest way to go about this would be to create and e-mail a vCalendar meeting request to the recipient and depend on them to accept and add it onto their calendar. It's not quite automatic and doesn't sync in real-time, but is probably the easiest solution. As vCalendar is an open format (http://www.imc.org/pdi/), this shouldn't be very difficult to do with Flash and a little bit of server-side code. Alternatively, Novell had worked around the issue of licensing the ActiveSync protocol with Exchange Connector by reimplementing the RPC over HTTP calls used by the Outlook web application (OWA). This has been open-sourced into Gnome's Evolution mail/address/calendaring client (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/), so you could reuse their code to sync with Exchange Server that way. Lastly, you could always screen-scrape OWA yourself and add the event that way through HTTP, though I'd imagine this would probably be even more work then reusing the code from Evolution. In theory, you could probably do all of this from within the Flash client if you go this route, though this would probably involve lots of work. ;( Jim _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders