Inside Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

Creating Your First Calendar Item

Creating a basic appointment on the calendar is a straightforward operation. Like all other item types, you create a calendar item by using the CreateItem Web method. Look at Example 8-1 for the most basic example of creating a calendar item.

Example 8-1. Example of creating a calendar item via a CreateItem request

<CreateItem SendMeetingInvitations="SendToNone"
            xmlns=".../messages"
            xmlns:t=".../types">
  <Items>
    <t:CalendarItem>
      <t:Subject>Write Chapter Explaining Calendar Items</t:Subject>
    </t:CalendarItem>
  </Items>
</CreateItem>

As you can see, all you need to do is supply a CalendarItem XML node with a child node of Subject and set the SendMeetingInvitations attribute to SendToNone.^[142] (We’ll discuss the SendMeetingInvitations ...