Wednesday, 20 June 2012

How to read the contact list of my exchange server mail account

This code read the contact list of my exchange 2007 server mail account using c#

private static void ListContacts(ExchangeService svc) {
    foreach (var v in svc.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Contacts,
                                    new ItemView(20))) {
        Contact contact = v as Contact;
        ContactGroup contactGroup = v as ContactGroup;

        //v.Load(); // Turns out you don't need to load for basic props.
        if (contact != null) {
            Console.WriteLine("Contact: {0} <{1}>",
                contact.DisplayName,
                contact.EmailAddresses[EmailAddressKey.EmailAddress1]);
        } else if (contactGroup != null) {
            Console.WriteLine("Contact Group: {0}", contactGroup.DisplayName);
            switch (svc.RequestedServerVersion) {
                case ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1:
                    ExpandGroupResults groupResults
                        = svc.ExpandGroup((contactGroup.Id));
                    foreach (var member in groupResults) {
                        Console.WriteLine("+ {0} <{1}>",
                            member.Name, member.Address);
                    }
                    break;
                case ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010:
                    foreach (GroupMember member in contactGroup.Members) {
                        Console.WriteLine("+ {0} <{1}>",
                        member.AddressInformation.Name,
                        member.AddressInformation.Address);
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    Console.WriteLine(
                        "** Unknown Server Version: {0}",
                        svc.RequestedServerVersion);
                    break;
            }
        } else {
            Console.WriteLine("Unknown contact type: {0} - {1}",
                contact.GetType(), v.Subject);
        }
    }
}
 
Note:  Please install ews api and add the following references
using Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
 
Webservices available in the folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\1.2" 
before check this program .
 
Happy Coding :)