Merrill, Jason wrote:
I know with the security of the Flash player, it's probably not possible or easy (unless MS has some sort of webservice for Exchange servers built in or something) to grab a person's Outlook Calendar or Task list - but what about a Flash desktop application - is that information available through some API? Can a third party app for Flash be used to call an application which will retrieve this data? I know there would be security issues on that too, but I was tasked to investigate this. I might have some resources to write that application, but wouldn't know what the possibilities would be on the Flash end. Anyone done any integration with Outlook before? Thanks.
Microsoft does offer Outlook Webmail, and this browser UI does show contact & scheduling info. I don't know if it can directly serve things other than full HTML pages, but if you own both ends of the transaction then it should be possible to put a screenscraping proxy server in the middle.
For "third party app", a lot depends on the native-code shell you use around the Adobe Flash Player wrapper. The default Projector in the Macromedia Flash Professional authoring tool is a simple shell without deep access to system-level calls, but third-party shells can expose any local API they wish. I'm not sure how well MS Outlook local data is exposed, however, or even whether that information is stored on the local machine.
Maybe the Microsoft docs would have more, on which ways they expose Outlook's Calendar or Tasks to alternative shells...? Once that is known, it can help figure things out on the client end.
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