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 > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
