How to: Add an Entry to Outlook Contacts

Applies to
The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office. Project type Application-level projects Microsoft Office version Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

This example creates a new contact and enters data into the new contact.

Example

Private Sub AddContact()
    Dim newContact As Outlook.ContactItem = Me.Application.CreateItem(Outlook. _
        OlItemType.olContactItem)
    Try 
        With newContact
            .FirstName = "Jo"
            .LastName = "Berry"
            .Email1Address = "somebody@example.com"
            .CustomerID = "123456"
            .PrimaryTelephoneNumber = "(425)555-0111"
            .MailingAddressStreet = "123 Main St."
            .MailingAddressCity = "Redmond"
            .MailingAddressState = "WA"
            .Save()
            .Display(True)
        End With 
    Catch
        MessageBox.Show("The new contact was not saved.")
    End Try 
End Sub

private void AddContact()
{
    Outlook.ContactItem newContact = (Outlook.ContactItem)
        this.Application.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olContactItem);
    try
    {
        newContact.FirstName = "Jo";
        newContact.LastName = "Berry";
        newContact.Email1Address = "somebody@example.com";
        newContact.CustomerID = "123456";
        newContact.PrimaryTelephoneNumber = "(425)555-0111";
        newContact.MailingAddressStreet = "123 Main St.";
        newContact.MailingAddressCity = "Redmond";
        newContact.MailingAddressState = "WA";
        newContact.Save();
        newContact.Display(true);
    }
    catch 
    {
        MessageBox.Show("The new contact was not saved.");
    }
}

See Also

Tasks

How to: Create Appointments

How to: Access Outlook Contacts

How to: Search for an E-Mail Address in Contacts

Concepts

Working with Contact Items