We have a web-based calendar for our school. However, the students use
outlook calendar. We want to have their calendars to update the info in
this web-based calendar automatically. How can we do this?

The only way I am thinking off right now is to build a software to run
silently in each students' computer. This software will extract the
data from the web-based calendar and import to outlook. I can easily
build the data extraction mechanism. However, I am not sure how to
program a software to import data into outlook calendar in the
background. Can someone advise me how to do this? Where can I get info
about the file format of Outlook calendar?

Thank you.

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We have a web-based calendar for our school. However, the students use
outlook calendar. We want to have their calendars to update the info
in this web-based calendar automatically. How can we do this?

The only way I am thinking off right now is to build a software to run
silently in each students' computer. This software will extract the
data from the web-based calendar and import to outlook. I can easily
build the data extraction mechanism. However, I am not sure how to
program a software to import data into outlook calendar in the
background. Can someone advise me how to do this? Where can I get info
about the file format of Outlook calendar?

The Outlook Calendar is not in a file of its own. It is one section of the
Outlook data store and all Outlook folders are in the same data store -
Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, Outbox, Tasks, etc. I doubt the format of the
data store is published and, in fact, while it can be in a file, it doesn't
have to be. When used with Exchange, for example, Outlook keeps its data on
the Exchange server and uses MAPI protocols to communicate with the server.

There are web resources for learning how to write programs to interface with
Outlook. A good place to start is http://www.outlookcode.com/ .
--
Brian Tillman

Thanks