Is it possible to have a connection to LotusNotes and use it as a data source for a C# project?

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Is it possible to have a connection to LotusNotes and use it as a data source for a C# project?

We use LN for email/calendar. Management wants a web page that would interact with the calendar. I think this can all be done within Notes, but I would much rather do it in .NET.

Some very specific functionality is wanted, some of which I'm not really sure can even be done in Notes.

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I know it's possible to interact with LN from C# because we've done it before. We had to wrap their C++ API, but it worked. Unfortunately, I don't have any code to share with you since I no longer work on that project.

I'm not certain what you mean by 'datasource', though.

John Ruiz 2010-03-23 14:10:25

@John: desktop and server applications are different. It may not be safe to call Notes from an ASP.NET page, as it is not safe to call Outlook, for instance.

John Saunders 2010-03-23 14:14:24

By datasource I just meant data extracted from LN. For example, the page contain events that come from LN calendar, so I would connect to Notes, get data and populate a datagrid, for instance. Not sure this can be done because LN is not a relational db.

AlexFreitas 2010-03-24 18:28:11

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Do you not have iNotes installed on your mail environment? I would look at using something that's already built instead of starting from scratch.

Walter 2010-03-24 20:10:23

@Walter: yes, and that may be the way we are going to go. However, there are some very specific requirements and that's the reason I though to have a custom page built. - Alex

AlexFreitas 2010-03-25 13:22:23

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