{"id":1211,"date":"2010-07-15T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-07-15T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:10:10","slug":"sending-outlook-meeting-invitations-from-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Sending Outlook Meeting invitations from C#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone needs to send Outlook meeting invitations from C# (or VB.NET, etc.), I have found the following resources useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckdotnet.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html\">http:\/\/chuckdotnet.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/461889\/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/461889\/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/2654743\/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/2654743\/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It turned out that adapting none of the code in these links worked correctly (the goal is to have Outlook add the &#8220;Attend&#8221;, etc. buttons) the only way that worked for me was to send a request, and then cut-n-paste the resulting ICAL file, filling the relevant fields with my data.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Outlook is incredibly finicky in what it accepts, and incredibly liberal in what it generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone needs to send Outlook meeting invitations from C# (or VB.NET, etc.), I have found the following resources useful: http:\/\/chuckdotnet.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/461889\/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/2654743\/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c It turned out that adapting none of the code in these links worked correctly (the goal is to have Outlook add the &#8220;Attend&#8221;, etc. buttons) the only way that worked for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sending Outlook Meeting invitations from C#&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}