You will have to use Win32::OLE and the Outlook Object Model, which should be documented in the MSDN. I've done this already, and if you only want to retrieve data from the Outlook Object Model, it's relatively simple as long as you stay with what Outlook delivers.

If you dare to venture into the realms of shared calendars and Exchange servers, you're in for a different bag.

Here is one node by me, discussing the basics of using Outlook via Win32::OLE, and here is a fully functional (Win32) snippet, which extracts all phone numbers from Contact Items. You would want Calendar Items instead, but the modifications are trivial as soon as you found the map of the Outlook Object Model on the MSDN.

In reply to Re: Perl with Outlook Calendar by Corion
in thread Perl with Outlook Calendar by Kevman

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