Appointments

This section provides sample tasks that involve appointments. Appointments include events, meetings, and recurring appointments, to name a few. Outlook uses the AppointmentItem object to represent appointments in the Calendar folder.

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Topic Description
Create an appointment that is an all-day event Uses the AllDayEvent property to create an appointment that is an all-day event.
Create an appointment that starts in the Pacific Time Zone and ends in the Eastern Time Zone Creates an appointment that begins in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and ends in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC-5).
Specify different recipient types for an appointment item Uses the OlMeetingRecipientType enumeration to specify different recipient types for an appointment item.
Create a recurring appointment by using the default recurrence pattern Creates a recurring appointment by using the default recurrence pattern.
Create a recurring appointment that has a weekly pattern Creates a recurring appointment that has a weekly pattern (for example, an appointment that occurs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).
Create an annual recurring appointment that uses a YearNth pattern Creates an appointment for which the annual recurrence pattern is a specific day such as the first Monday in June.
Find a specific appointment in a recurring appointment series Shows how to return an AppointmentItem object that represents a specific appointment in a recurring appointment series.
Create an exception appointment in a recurring appointment series Uses an Exception object to create an exception to a standard recurrence pattern for an appointment.
Create a reminder for an appointment item Uses the ReminderSet property to create a reminder for an appointment item.
Import appointment XML data into Outlook appointment objects Reads appointment data formatted in XML, saves the data to Outlook AppointmentItem objects in the default calendar, and returns the appointment objects in an array.

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