Use Outlook contact list/address book from web application

[Anton Viktorov]

Hello Everybody,

We are developing web application (using asp.net).
There are several e-mail fields which users shall fill in.
Users would like to have "+" button near the e-mail field. Upon
pressing that button they want to have their outlook address book in
front of them.
So they just want from our web application to communicate with outlook
address book somehow. (like it is when you creating new mail in
Outlook and press "To..." button).

The question is - Is it possible? If yes, how could it be done?
Thanks a lot!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Possible, but quite difficult if you want to write a generic application
that users of Outlook in any configuration can use. Such an application
would need an ASP.NET custom control with client-side JScript to manage the
interaction with the address book component in Outlook, an interaction that
will itself trigger security prompts. Not fun at all.

If you're working in an Exchange environment, though, it might be
interesting to see if anyone's done any work in using WebDAV to generate
something that looks like the OL address book.