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Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

captain — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:19:40 -0000

Thanks a bunch.

Yes, I have seen that your code did not create a task, I was commenting on your comment:

"One more thing… if you want to create a new task, you do it like this:

Dim MyApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application()

Dim outlookTask As Outlook.TaskItem = MyApp.Application.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olTaskItem)"

You have helped me a lot, thank you again!

Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

Emad Ibrahim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:05:43 -0000

@captain: The code in my first comment doesn't create a task it retrieves all the tasks... Here it is again:

Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpace
ns = MyApp.Application.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)
outlookTasksAll = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderTasks).Items

Again, you can download the source code from the link in my first comment and take a look at it.

Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

captain — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:22:03 -0000

Thank you very much.

No, I do not want to create a new task, I would like to grab the info for a better printout formatting.

Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

Emad Ibrahim — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:34:14 -0000

One more thing... if you want to create a new task, you do it like this:

Dim MyApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application()

Dim outlookTask As Outlook.TaskItem = MyApp.Application.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olTaskItem)

Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

Emad Ibrahim — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:32:10 -0000

Outlook.OlTaskStatus.olTaskComplete _
).ToList

You can take a look at my open source project that syncs RTM with Outlook you might find what you are looking for in the source code. There is more info at http://www.emadibrahim.com/2008/04/14/synchroni...

Re: Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

captain — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:24:01 -0000

For Each task In tasks
‘ iterate through the tasks here
Next

...
ARGH!

How do I actually get to the tasks then?
how do I acess the subject, for example?

Anytime I try using an object like
dim task as outlook.taskitem I get a NULL reference exception.
If I use
dim task as new outlook.taskitem() I get a "can not be used in this context, as outlook.classitem is FRIEND"

help, please?