getting access to outlook exchange global address book

Question

i am building a csharp application and i would like a dropdown list of all users in my outlook global address book (the same one when i click on To: from outlook gui. is this possible to get this progrmaticall? what are the security requirements here?

Answer 1

You can use the Microsoft Office API to access outlook components. Here is a note from the Microsoft site on how to do this. The security concerns are addressed here. Basically you resuse an existing outlook session, if none exists prompt the user to start outlook.