Get Contact information from outlook using C#

The following Code sample guide you to get contact information form outlook ( 2003 or 2007). Before using this code, you need to refer “Microsoft outlook object libary “ in you project .

Note 1: To execute this code outlook must be running in the machine.

Note 2: You have to create an alias for a namespace “Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook”
like using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;


private List GetContacts(string findLastName)
{
List foundContacts = new List();
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
Outlook.MAPIFolder folderContacts = outlookApp.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Items searchFolder = folderContacts.Items;
foreach (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem foundContact in searchFolder)
{
if (foundContact.LastName.Contains(findLastName))
{
foundContact.Display(false);
foundContacts.Add(foundContact);
}
} return foundContacts;
}