>>>>>Has anyone had Fox exchange info w/Outlook's Calendar? I see that there's an import/export facility, but I wanted to make it real-time, if possible, with a program I wrote for a Physical Rehabilitation firm and its patients.
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>>>>>I would prefer using Outlook for its other contact management abilities, but if anyone has a suggestion for a different database (Act! looked way too strange, with no import/export ability to the Calendar, even though it's a DBF), even something from a 3rd-party like Hallogram, pls let me know.
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>>>>>JR
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>>>>As others have told you, DDE is not the way to go. It is old technology. There are a couple of knowledebase articles at www.microsoft.com/msdn on interfacing VFP and Outlook.
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>>>Meant to say OLE, not DDE. My mistake. Re VFP & Outlook, so far, so good. I've gotten it (the calendar) to fire from VFP using a KB article from the MSDN CD. I can't seem to find how to add a contact record directly from VFP into Outlook (I'm new to this OLE stuff). I looked at the Vbaoutl.hlp file and it seems like a lot hinges on these item indexes, which I can't find the table for. VFP has numbers representing these indexes, and VB has words. If anyone has any more clues, I'd appreciate it.
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>>>I would want to purchase the book that Erik suggested, if I knew that it gave those numeric values as well.
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>>>Thanks for all your help so far! I've gotten further than I expected in such a short time. This seems easier than I thought it would be.
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>>>JR
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>>One thing to keep in mind. Outlook uses VB Script, not VBA. I don't know if that makes a difference.
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>Makes no difference to me, since I don't know what you're talking about! Hahaha! Something tells me I'll know before this whole learning experience is through. . .
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>JR


Each is a slightly different variant of VB. VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. This is used by Office 97 products and is licensed to several other vendors. VBScript was designed for Internet use.