Appointment in Outlook calendar

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Hi All,

My code is working fine to send Appointment.but the invitee couldn't accept the Meeting appointment.The options Accept/Tectative/Decline shows Inactive.

Any one guide me to active Accept/Tectative/Decline option.

C#

private void SendAppointment(string subject,string To,DateTime Start,DateTime End)
       {
           try
           {
               DateTime dtNow = DateTime.Now;
               MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
               msg.From = new MailAddress("vinoth.palanivelu@daimler.com");
               msg.To.Add(To); ;
               msg.Subject = subject;
               msg.Body = "Here is the Body Content";
               msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
               StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
               str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCALENDAR");
               str.AppendLine("PRODID:-//Schedule a Meeting");
               str.AppendLine("VERSION:2.0");
               str.AppendLine("METHOD:REQUEST");
               str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VEVENT");
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTART:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", Start.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyyMMdd\\THHmmss\\Z")));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTAMP:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", (End - Start).Minutes.ToString()));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTEND:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", End.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyyMMdd\\THHmmss\\Z")));
               str.AppendLine("LOCATION: TBD");
              // str.AppendLine(string.Format("UID:{0}", Guid.NewGuid()));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("DESCRIPTION:{0}", msg.Body));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:{0}", msg.Body));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("SUMMARY:{0}", msg.Subject));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("ORGANIZER:MAILTO:{0}", msg.From.Address));
               str.AppendLine(string.Format("ATTENDEE;CN=\"{0}\";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:{1}", msg.To[0].DisplayName, msg.To[0].Address));
               str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VALARM");
               str.AppendLine("TRIGGER:-PT15M");
               str.AppendLine("ACTION:DISPLAY");
               str.AppendLine("DESCRIPTION:Reminder");
               str.AppendLine("END:VALARM");
               str.AppendLine("END:VEVENT");
               str.AppendLine("END:VCALENDAR");
               System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtpclient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
               smtpclient.Host = "53.151.100.102";
               smtpclient.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
               System.Net.Mime.ContentType ct = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");
               ct.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");
               ct.Parameters.Add("name", "Meeting.ics");
               AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str.ToString(), ct);
               msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal);
               smtpclient.Send(msg);
           }
           catch (Exception ex)
           {
               lblError.Visible = true;
               lblError.Text = ex.Message;

           }

Please help

Posted 16-Jul-15 20:39pm

v2vinoth

Updated 16-Jul-15 22:45pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Jul-15 3:03am

What is calender?
—SA

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 17-Jul-15 3:51am

LOL. :)

v2vinoth 17-Jul-15 3:03am

Outlook calender

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 17-Jul-15 3:51am

Dude Sergey is telling you that it is "Calendar" not "Calender". :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Jul-15 11:09am

It would be perfectly fine if if was a typo, but thousands repeat the same exact word all the time.
—SA

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 20-Jul-15 8:17am

Yeah, I know. This is a very commonly misspelt word.

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Sem.Shekhovtsov · Answer 1 · 2015-07-18T07:42:00

this is incredible complicated thing. I had the same problem with appointments some time ago. Spent about 12 hours on it. What you should try to do first: add "Meeting.ics" in the attachment. Try different content types: multipart/alternative, with AlternateViews.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461889/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook[^]

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// plaintext and HTML descriptions (HTML version is required by Outlook)
string bodyText = "Please come to project XYZ review meeting.";
string bodyHtml = "<p>Please come to project XYZ review meeting.</p>";

// appointment data - see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445 for details
string appointmentData =
    "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n" +
    "PRODID:Rebex Mail\n" +
    "VERSION:2.0\n" +
    "BEGIN:VTIMEZONE\n" +
    "TZID:US-Eastern\n" +
    "BEGIN:STANDARD\n" +
    "DTSTART:19981025T020000\n" +
    "RDATE:19981025T020000\n" +
    "TZOFFSETFROM:-0400\n" +
    "TZOFFSETTO:-0500\n" +
    "TZNAME:EST\n" +
    "END:STANDARD\n" +
    "BEGIN:DAYLIGHT\n" +
    "DTSTART:19990404T020000\n" +
    "RDATE:19990404T020000\n" +
    "TZOFFSETFROM:-0500\n" +
    "TZOFFSETTO:-0400\n" +
    "TZNAME:EDT\n" +
    "END:DAYLIGHT\n" +
    "END:VTIMEZONE\n" +
    "BEGIN:VEVENT\n" +
    "DTSTAMP:19980309T231000Z\n" +
    "UID:guid-1.host1.com\n" +
    "ORGANIZER;ROLE=CHAIR:MAILTO:mrbig@host.com\n" +
    "ATTENDEE;RSVP=TRUE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=GROUP:MAILTO:employee-A@host.com\n" +
    "DESCRIPTION:Project XYZ Review Meeting\n" +
    "CATEGORIES:MEETING\n" +
    "CLASS:PUBLIC\n" +
    "CREATED:19980309T130000Z\n" +
    "SUMMARY:XYZ Project Review\n" +
    "DTSTART;TZID=US-Eastern:19980312T083000\n" +
    "DTEND;TZID=US-Eastern:19980312T093000\n" +
    "LOCATION:1CP Conference Room 4350\n" +
    "END:VEVENT\n" +
    "END:VCALENDAR\n";  

// construct the calendar view
AlternateView appointment = new AlternateView();
appointment.SetContent(appointmentData, "text/calendar");
appointment.ContentType.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");

// construct the message
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.BodyText = bodyText;
message.BodyHtml = bodyHtml;
message.AlternateViews.Add(appointment);

// save the message
message.Save(...);