Generate an email that will trigger appointments in Outlook

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bob wallace - 28 Jan 2004 21:37 GMT

I am currently working on a ASP.NET (with C#) project that needs
to send email that will add an appointment to the outlook calendar of the
recever.
All my recevers are using outlook.I am currently using the mailMessage class
to
send my emails (with HTML content type) and I am searching for a way to
include
something in my message that might tell outlook to update the calendar. Do I
need
to change the content type to something else ? Is it possible or the only
solution
is to send a .vcs file and import the file manually ? One way or the other,
thanks for the help.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 28 Jan 2004 22:55 GMT

iCalendar is the established Internet standard for transmitting appointment
information. content type is text/calendar IIRC, but you can look it up. It
would be cool if someone had a dotnet library for iCal.

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> I am currently working on a ASP.NET (with C#) project that needs
> to send email that will add an appointment to the outlook calendar of the
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> is to send a .vcs file and import the file manually ? One way or the other,
> thanks for the help.

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