How to read Outlook addressbook in PowerBuilder

Question

I am developing an application which will read Addressbook of Outlook as well as Thunderbird. Anybody knows how to read the contact information from .pst files. I am using PowerBuilder 11.5 Classical and Windows 7 32Bit With Outlook 2007 & Thunderbird 24.3.0

Answer 1

Last I checked, the PST file format wasn't documented sufficiently to read directly, so you'd have to do OLE into Outlook (lots of examples on how to do this). Last time I looked, Thunderbird had no OLE, but you could use the FileRead(), etc... file access functionality in PowerBuilder to read the file using the file format specification (caveat: I've not done this for Thunderbird, so I have no idea how easy or hard it is).

Good luck,

Terry