Access Outlook contacts from visual studio Word template

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Hi, I'm trying to make a Word template in visual studio 2012/C#, where I want to click a button which reads a cell in an MS word table (which contains a user name)and searches outlook for the Full name, phone and email for such user if it exists, and send it to different cells.

I added this to my document project:

C#

using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

I'm not sure how to get the contact information that I want to display in various cells in my word document. Please advise.

Thanks.

Posted 21-May-13 10:38am

mcabel

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DinoRondelly · Answer 1 · 2013-05-21T12:07:00

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This should get you started,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-CA/library/ms269108(v=vs.80).aspx[^]

Posted 21-May-13 12:07pm

DinoRondelly

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mcabel 23-May-13 14:16pm

Hi, Thanks for your answer. I tried this and kinda works, but not completely and not as expected. I was only able to search in a limited number of contacts. Instead, I need to search and retrieve information from the whole contact list/global address list.

I found this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff184631(v=office.14).aspx
but the example gives me an outlook pop up, but I want the search to be done "behind the scenes" and return a string array or list or table with the contact information or an empty structure if nothing is found.

Also I'm not sure what this means

" string PR_EMSMDB_SECTION_UID =
@"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3D150102";
if (store == null)"

I need code that works offline and regardless of microsoft changes, so if code is retrieved from a website, this would be inconvenient...

Please advise.