Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming

Creating a Recurring Appointment

The IPOutlookApp interface function CreateItem can be used to create new contact, appointment, task, or city items. The function takes a constant indicating which type of item to create (olAppointmentItem, olContactItem, olTaskItem, or olCityItem) and returns an interface pointer of the appropriate type (for example, IAppointment, IContact, ITask, or ICity). When using classes created with the _com_ptr_t template you will need to use the Attach function to take the raw interface pointer returned from CreateItem and attach it to a class object.

The following code fragment calls CreateItem to return an IAppointment interface pointer representing a new appointment item. Notice how a raw interface pointer variable ...