>>>Wow, BTW. I didn't even notice you were asking about
Outlook Express and not Outlook.
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>>I wrote an application that reads the Outlook contacts and prints a bokklet to take in your pocket. I would like it to alsop be able to import contacts from Outlook Express, gmail, hotmail and yahoo mail.
>
>OE stores contacts in a Windows Address Book (.WAB) file. According to the Wikipedia article (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Address_Book ), there is a Windows Address Book API that can be used to read it. FWIW the WAB API reference is at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms629440(VS.85).aspx>
>There is a non-free example of how to read it in VFP at
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=407>
>Nigel Coates has a free MAPI class download at
http://nbcsoftware.nbcwebservices.com/freeware.asp , I don't use it myself but I seem to recall it might have worked with OE. Might be worth looking at.
Sorry for drifting this thread offtopic, but does anyone else notice the problem with news2news.com/vfp website in IE7? I refer to the top menu problem?
Thanks in advance.
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