FreeBusy Outlook method not working in VB.NET

Asked Jun 05 '18 at 20:44

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I am trying to get the appointment information of a contact from my company using VB.NET (not VBA) and the only method I could find for this was the FreeBusy method which VBA definition can be found here.

I came up so far with this code :

Dim AppOutlook As New Outlook.Application
Dim appt As Outlook.AppointmentItem =
    CType(AppOutlook.CreateItem(
    Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem), Outlook.AppointmentItem)
Dim recip1 As Outlook.Recipient =
    appt.Recipients.Add("Jack Smith")
MsgBox(recip1.FreeBusy(#05/06/2018#, 60))

However, when arriving at the method FreeBusy, Visual Studio throws me an exception with the only label Sorry, something went wrong. You may want to try again. and no further details.

I checked if the variable receip1 was empty, but it is not and it well got the right contact with the right email address.

I really have no idea what I could have done wrong.

asked Jun 05 '18 at 20:44

PaaBliiTo

Have you tried to call recip1.Resolve first? – Dmitry Streblechenko Jun 07 '18 at 03:35
@DmitryStreblechenko I just tried the method before the MsgBox and received a `True` answer from it, but the FreeBusy still gave me the previous error. – PaaBliiTo Jun 07 '18 at 07:34
Are you sure it gets resolved to the expected recipient? What is the value of the recip1.Address property? – Dmitry Streblechenko Jun 07 '18 at 18:05
@DmitryStreblechenko Yes it is, recip1.Address() gives me the right address (I do not write it here because of privacy) – PaaBliiTo Jun 20 '18 at 16:09
Is it SMTP or EX type address? – Dmitry Streblechenko Jun 20 '18 at 16:25
@DmitryStreblechenko SMTP I think..? – PaaBliiTo Jun 21 '18 at 12:52
What does the address look like? Like SMTP address or something like "o=whatever/ou=something/"? Are you sure the recipient comes from your Exchange server? – Dmitry Streblechenko Jun 21 '18 at 14:54

FreeBusy Outlook method not working in VB.NET

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