read ICalendar with CDO

[Sean Jorden]

I am trying to find out how to install a version of CDO which will allow me
to read ICalendar files. I have read you need CDO for Exchange.. but I
don't want to have to install Exchange on the same box I am calling the CDO
libraries from.

Any ideas on how to install just the CDO libraries?

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

CDOEX can only be installed on the Exchange server. Why do you need
that though? Outlook will automatically open an ical as an appointment
and it's just a text format that can be opened and read from Windows
Scripting or lots of other ways. Open an ical in Notepad to see what I
mean.

 

[Sean Jorden]

We have built an application that has nothing to do with Exchange that
currently uses CDO for Windows 2000 and we need a way to
read/write/manipulate ical files..

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Then use textfile processing methods. Since an ICal is a text file
with a specific extension and property lines that are well documented
it's not very hard. You won't be able to use CDOEX for that though
unless you have an Exchange server and install CDOEX on that server.

 

[Sean Jorden]

Not hard?? When I get through reading the 148 page RFC spec I'll let you
know...

thx