Hi there,

We've been working for a while in VB.NET with the inclusion of COM library Redemption.DLL to read Outlooks contacts. It happens to cause some problem when we need to deploy it with clickonce (but that's not the point here). I would like to know if there is a way to easily access Outlook contacts without relying on COM libs. I haven't really found anything I liked so far, Redemption seemed to be able to go through some security and stuff.

Any tips/directions would be appreciated,

Thanks :)

Hello Freddy,

Please use Outlook Object model to access Outlook contacts. Code like this,

Outlook.Folder conFolder = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts) as Outlook.Folder;
Outlook.Items items = conFolder.Items;
foreach (Outlook.ContactItem cItem in conFolder.Items)
{
......
}

Here we can check thisproperties page to find the property you want to access.

About security and Redemption, here are two articles you could refer to:
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/.
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/security.htm#regfreecom.

If you have any further question, please feel free to let us know.

Best regards,
Bessie