Is there any way to interact with the Windows Phone 7 calendar?
I have some basic goals of reading from and writing to the calendar and I'm not sure there is a way to do this.
From what I can vcard and ical support are not even there.
The latest(as of August, 2011) release of WP7, codenamed Mango and WP7.1, DOES allows a read only access to calendar and contacts data.
Best way is to listen directly from horse's mouth. Check out the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202972%28v=VS.92%29.aspx
The current release of Windows Phone 7 does not allow developers to build applications that interact with the Calendar (see this thread). At this stage, as lukas suggested, you need to roll out your own controls and services to synchronize with Google Calendar, Outlook, etc. You can also look at integrating your application with Live Calendar (see MickN's links in this thread)
HTH, indyfromoz
Im not 100% sure but it is not avaible for now.
Just some free thoughts: Maybe you can interract with a google or outlook calendar in your app via webservices and your user will have the synchronization between the phone calendar and web calendar so maybe this is the way, but I'm just thinking :)
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I'm creating a calendar app that requires me to link and sync with multiple calendars. I've already implemented Google, and Microsoft. However, i'm having a difficult time looking for documentations on how i'll be able to retrieve and save events from an apple calendar through my web application.
Does anyone have any leads? Any help would be much appreciated!
I need to add/edit/del events to a shared Google cal using visual basic or Access (not using VB.NET) to post events from a custom desktop calendar built in Access and some VB. My goal - users can have an internal office calendar used for years and fully integrated with office functions, while choosing to share some of these events on a Web calendar for scheduling.
I can find others not using VB.NET who want to do the same, but none of their posts have been successful in finding out how.
If I cannot use the google API with VB (not vb.net) can I use vbscript to add/del calendar events? I found some sample code that was successful for adding an event with vbscript, but no successful code in vbscript to del or edit (tho others have tried).
Appreciate any help/suggestions on this. After hours across 2 days searching, this group looks like my final hope.
Thanks,
Mark
I'm trying to create some application for Windows Phone >= 7.1
During plannin my work and specyfiong technical requirements I've come across one problem.
I wan't to have free application with basic functionality. And then it should be extendable with some non-free extensions (dlls?, databases?, SaaS?)
Is it possible at the moment to use some MS api/app/etc. to be able to publish such extensions and sell them? What is the best way to do this if there is more than one solution?
Thank you for any help.
As of right now (June 2012), in-app purchases are not supported. Your only choices, then are being a paid app and supporting trial mode.
The only way you can do this at present is to handle the additional purchases yourself.
You'd have to set up a website which customers could create an account on and purchase extensions through, then have them also log into your app with those account details to determine what additional data to download or functions to enable.
You could be smart and include the website functionality into your app with a browser control. Take a look at the Amazon Kindle app for an example of how they accomplish it.
I'm working on a web application that allows users to create a calendar of events, then download those events into their calendar program of choice (e.g., Outlook, Lotus Notes, iCal, Google Calendar, etc.)
The web app outputs the event data as an attachment in iCalendar (ics) format.
I'm running into a variety of problems...
If I use "VERSION:1.0", Outlook 2003 will recognize and import the attachment. However, Apple iCal will not. If it's "VERSION:2.0", iCal works, but Outlook 2003 will not.
If the attachment has more than one event (VEVENT), then Outlook 2003 only imports the first event, unless the user uses Outlook's import function.
I don't have Lotus Notes, or multiple versions of Outlook (2007, 2010), so I can't how those behave easily.
I don't mind having to implement a little dialog that asks the user what calendar program they use so I can customize the output accordingly. However, I don't know what each of the major programs supports or requires.
Has anyone found a resource that lists, by calendar program, what works and what doesn't? E.g., does Outlook 2007 or 2010 support "VERSION:1.0"? Is there a way to get Outlook 2003 to support "VERSION:2.0", or handle multiple events? What does Lotus Notes support? What about Yahoo and Google?
I don't need to support EVERY program, but I'd like to support as many of the major ones as possible.
Many thanks in advance!
Regarding Lotus Notes, you can download a trial version of the Notes client software from the IBM site, which may be all you really need to test your application. Notes can import ical entries through an Import menu, or dragging and dropping the iCal file into the Notes client. (If you need to do further Notes-specific development, you can also download a free version of the "Domino Designer" software from the IBM web site - IBM makes the Designer software available free for single machine use - no server access.)
There is a KBase article on the IBM site with some details of iCal support in the latest version of Notes (8.5) - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes85-icalendar/index.html
I started wondering today if it would be possible to integrate Joomla+CB with Google apps.
If that would be possible we could have one great product!
The first thing that I would want to integrate is the logon-process, one login for Joomla+Google apps.
Then it would be great to have some Google apps modules:
- your latest e-mails
- your next calendar entries
- your google talk buddies online/offline
- your most recent docs and spreadsheets
This question has too many sides to it.
I'll provide the answer to the logon process. There's an extension called Ulti RPX.
It has some bugs and I've had to make many small changes to get it working well for me, but you can easily understand it and change it to provide your users with the integrated logon that you desire.