This is not a difficult task, but you probably will want to use the Redemption library from http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/ in order to avoid Outlook's standard security prompts.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


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Hi folks,

My dev team has been struggling for months to create an activex
control (add-in) for IE to read a person's Outlook contacts for the
social network I am building - assuming they agree to install it of
course.

Should this be difficult? Are there any libraries they could buy for
this?

P.S. Could also use the same thing for Hotmail, Gmail, etc...

- E