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How to read Outlook Express contact list
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27/06/2008 15:41:37
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Third party products
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01327118
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>>>>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.
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>>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
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>>There is a non-free example of how to read it in VFP at http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=407
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>>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.

You mean the menu being repeated? I'm seeing that in FF3 as well.
Regards. Al

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