Working with Outlook Contacts

Creating, Saving and Reading Contacts

Like MapiMessage, Aspose.Email allows you to create Outlook contacts. The MapiContact class provides all the contact related properties required to create an Outlook contact. This article shows how to create, save and read an Outlook contact using the MapiContact class.

Create and Save Outlook Contact

To create a contact and save it to disc:

1. Instantiate a new object of the MapiContact class.
2. Enter contact property information.
3. Add photo data (if any).
4. Save the contact as MSG or VCard format.

The following code snippet shows you how to create and save outlook contact.

Save Contact in Version 3 VCF Format

To save the contact in version 3 VCF format, use the VCardVersion enumerable to set the VCardSaveOptions.Version property. The following sample code demonstrates the use of VCardVersion enumerable to save the contact VCF version 3 format.

Reading a MapiContact

The MapiContact class can be used to load both Outlook MSG and VCard format contacts. The following code snippet shows you how to load Outlook contacts saved as MSG and VCF into a MapiContact.

Loading a Contact from MSG

The following code snippet shows you how to load contacts from MSG.

Loading a Contact from VCard

The following code snippet shows you how to load contacts from VCard.

Loading a Contact from VCard with Specified Encoding

The following code snippet shows you how to load contacts from VCard with the specified encoding.

Rendering Contact Information to MHTML

Outlook Contact can be converted to MHTML using Aspose.Email API. This example shows how a VCard is loaded into MapiContact and then converted to MHTML with the help of MailMessage API.