Thanks
I will be investing in the Exhange server text.
It costs $118 but I have a coupon somewhere so I try and find that before I
purchase it.
Also there is a good API from Independentsoft but their examples require one to
get a
Network credential using a users account and password
<snip>
NetworkCredential credential = new NetworkCredential("username",
"password");
Service service = new Service("https://myserver/ews/Exchange.asmx";,
credential);
</snip>
There may be a way to get the network credentials of the currently logged in
user.
I am still investigating that.
If one has to obtain user credentials each time (or cache them) then I am not
much better off than using SMTP
(although Ken says one can make this transparent by changing the SMTP connector)
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:54 AM
To: ausDotNet
Subject: Re: Exchange Web Services Development
On 17 February 2010 12:53, Maddin, Peter
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I tried a trial MAPI control which is ok. Integrated security is fine. An issue
which becomes all to apparent is those annoying security dialogs that keep
popping up and which gives one the whoops (not to mention the users who will
crucify me if I foist this on them). I suspect that one also has to install
Outlook to gain access to the appropriate mapi dll. If one could avoid this it
would be great.
Are you talking about the warnings from Outlook about "Application XYZ trying
to access your contacts, Allow for 1 Minute" etc? No way around them aside from
reconfiguring Outlook AFAIK - Tools -> Trust Centre -> Programmatic Access. You
can change Outlook to never warn about programmatic access but then that is for
all apps on your system and not a good idea for security.
MAPI is a fundamentally retarded and needlessly complex (MSRPC based) way to
access mail. Unless you need to do specific stuff to do with the information
store on exchange, etc, I'd recommend you just stick with something standards
based. You'll avoid all the nonsense such as calls failing because Outlook has
a modal dialogue box open etc.
I would like to try out the new web services that are available. I have a link
to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd877037.aspx
They're pretty good and very functional AFAIK and hopefully one day they will
kill MAPI in favour of them. If you have a Mac running OSX Snow Leopard, all of
the native apps (mail, contacts and calendar) directly sync against Exchange
using those web services - which is pretty cool I think!
My only gripe is why they are needed in light of activesync (MSRPC+MAPI vs
ActiveSync vs Web Services ALL to access the one product?!?!)
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