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Old October 20th 07, 05:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
William McIlroy
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Default OUTLOOK 2007 IS LAME WHEN VCF FILE CONTAINS 1 ITEM

Outlook 2007 will only import the first item in a multiple-item VCF file.
This is hugely annoying to businessmen (and women). I have a tested the
following working solution. First, run the following C# program against the
VCF file to split the items into multiple files. Next, run the following
skeleton to produce a VBScript file. Then, open the command prompt and
Outlook 2007. With nothing else going on in your computer (like AIM or
something else that might disrupt your screen environment), run the VBScript
from the command prompt using wscript. DO NOT TOUCH THE KEYBOARD OR MOUSE!
This will insert in all completeness the data in the VCF. You will find them
in your Contacts. Outlook 2007 permits you to create a PST file of the
Contacts.

The C# program:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace VCARD_SPLITTER
{
class Program
{

/*

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:xxxxx;xxxxx
TEL;CELL:0000000000
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:ccccc;cccc
TEL;WORK:2020000000
END:VCARD

*/

static void Main(string[] args)
{
ListCONTACT ListOfContacts = new ListCONTACT();
int linecount = 0;
int contactNumber = 0;
CONTACT cntct = null;
using (StreamReader sr = new
StreamReader(@"C:\Users\Ugen\Documents\Whole Phonebook.vcf"))
{
for (; ; )
{
string line = sr.ReadLine();
if (line == null)
break;
linecount++;
if (line.Equals("END:VCARD"))
{
if (cntct != null)
{
cntct.Add(line);
contactNumber++;
string newfilename =
@"C:\Users\Ugen\Documents\manyContacts\" + contactNumber.ToString() + ".VCF";
using (StreamWriter sw = new
StreamWriter(newfilename))
{
int numberOfLines = cntct.GetLength();
int i;
for (i = 0; i numberOfLines; i++)
sw.WriteLine(cntct.GetString(i));
cntct = null;
}

}
}
else if (line.Equals("BEGIN:VCARD"))
{
cntct = new CONTACT();
cntct.Add(line);
}
else
cntct.Add(line);
}
}

Console.WriteLine("Done. " + linecount.ToString() + " lines.");
}
}
}


The SSG skeleton:


Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
oShell.AppActivate "Outlook"
*INCREMENT Z TO 430
oShell.AppActivate "Outlook"
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
oShell.SendKeys "%F"
*INCREMENT X TO 5
Wscript.Sleep(2000)
oShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
*LOOP
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
oShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
*INCREMENT Y TO 2
oShell.SendKeys "{HOME}"
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
*LOOP
*INCREMENT Y TO 2
oShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
*LOOP
oShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
Wscript.Sleep(1000)
oShell.SendKeys "C:\Users\Ugen\Documents\manyContacts\[*Z].VCF"
Wscript.Sleep(2000)
oShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
Wscript.Sleep(5000)
*LOOP

--
William McIlroy


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