>Hi,
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction to reading and writing to the Task section of Outlook 2000.
>
>I have a need to check how many tasks have been allocated for a particular date, check that I am not duplicating a task and writing a new task if necessary.
>

Bob already pointed you to the book that Della Martin and I wrote. To get at the tasks in Outlook, you use code along these lines:

#DEFINE olFolderTasks 13
oOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
oNS = oOutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")

oTasks = oNS.GetDefaultFolder( olFolderTasks )
oTaskItems = oTasks.Items

Now you can loop through the oTaskItems collection, reading and changing the tasks.

Tamar