Hello all...
I've been asked to add functionality to my company's website that would allow users to upload part or all of their outlook emails to our server. The sceneario that I've been asked to make a reality is the following:
1. A user goes to our website and logs in.
2. S/he clicks on a button/link that says something along the lines of "upload email".
3. A program (ActiveX ?) comes up that lists the emails found in the users outlook inbox and allows the user to pick which emails to upload.
4. The user clicks uploads and the program sends the selected emails to our server where they're interpreted in saved in a database for later use.
My problem is I don't know how to start. This functionality seems to be so common nowadays that I thought a google search would return millions of pages explaining how to create active controls that access the client's file system and whatnot and sends that data to the server. I haven't found many, though, and I'm stuck with the following questions:
1. What technology should I use to acomplish the above? I'm currently using ASP.NET/C#/Visual Studio 2008, and I would like to stay in this realm, but I'm willing to try something else if it need be.
2. Assuming ActiveX is the solution, where can I find resources to start off?
3. Again, assuming ActiveX is the way to go, how do I access the client's Outlook inbox? At the moment, we're trying both CDO and RDO and some things are not working? Is this what I should be using?
I'm looking for an answer that looks something like this:
To access the file system in the client's computer, you would need to create an ActiveX control. Here's some literature on that.
To interact with Outlook, you can use .NET/COM with the following objects... This site contains some info about that.
An answer like that would get me going...
Please shead some light.
Thanks.
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I think, therefore I am. [Rene Descartes]
I've been asked to add functionality to my company's website that would allow users to upload part or all of their outlook emails to our server. The sceneario that I've been asked to make a reality is the following:
1. A user goes to our website and logs in.
2. S/he clicks on a button/link that says something along the lines of "upload email".
3. A program (ActiveX ?) comes up that lists the emails found in the users outlook inbox and allows the user to pick which emails to upload.
4. The user clicks uploads and the program sends the selected emails to our server where they're interpreted in saved in a database for later use.
My problem is I don't know how to start. This functionality seems to be so common nowadays that I thought a google search would return millions of pages explaining how to create active controls that access the client's file system and whatnot and sends that data to the server. I haven't found many, though, and I'm stuck with the following questions:
1. What technology should I use to acomplish the above? I'm currently using ASP.NET/C#/Visual Studio 2008, and I would like to stay in this realm, but I'm willing to try something else if it need be.
2. Assuming ActiveX is the solution, where can I find resources to start off?
3. Again, assuming ActiveX is the way to go, how do I access the client's Outlook inbox? At the moment, we're trying both CDO and RDO and some things are not working? Is this what I should be using?
I'm looking for an answer that looks something like this:
To access the file system in the client's computer, you would need to create an ActiveX control. Here's some literature on that.
To interact with Outlook, you can use .NET/COM with the following objects... This site contains some info about that.
An answer like that would get me going...
Please shead some light.
Thanks.
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I think, therefore I am. [Rene Descartes]
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