Getting contacts from outlook

Question

Hi Im trying to get all the contacts that I have in outlook and writing them to a textbox. This is my code: // Obtain an instance of the Outlook application Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); // Access the MAPI namespace Outlook.NameSpace ns = app.GetNamespace(MAPI); // Get the user's default contacts folder Outlook.MAPIFolder contacts = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts); // Go through all the folders foreach (Outlook.Folder folder in contacts.Folders) { // Iterate through each contact for (int i = 1; i { // Get a contact Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)folder.Items[i]; // Write contact info to textbox richTextBox1.Text += folder.AddressBookName.ToString() +   + contact.EntryID +   + Environment.NewLine; } } But I only get the contacts in the first folder where am I going wrong?

Shakti Singh Dulawat · Answer

This should print out all the folders in your outlook including your public folders. foreach (MAPIFolderfolder in olNS.Folders) { GetFolders(folder); } public void GetFolders(MAPIFolderfolder) { if (folder.Folders.Count==0) { Console.WriteLine(folder.FullFolderPath); } else { foreach (MAPIFoldersubFolder in folder.Folders) { GetFolders(subFolder); } } }

Carl-Johan Larsson · Answer

Hi thanks for your reply I have looked at your code but that only pulls the contacts from the default folder I have tried that and that works fine the problem is that I cant get all the contacts from all the folders:I can see that all folders are loaded into the: foreach (Outlook.Folder folder in contacts.Folders) But somewhere there is an error.Any suggestions?

Shakti Singh Dulawat · Answer

We have one good article available at our website about it This article show how to access Outlook Contact list http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/hirendra_singh/accessing-outlook-contacts-list-in-C-Sharp/