Im pretty sure outlook at export CSV file or something similiar..

Can't tell you for sure as I dont use either product..

On 10/31/05, Wouter Steidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
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