How to: Obtain Availability Information for an Exchange User's Manager

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This example displays the next free 60-minute time slot in the calendar for a user's manager.

Example

This code sample checks whether the current user is an Exchange user. If so, and if the current user has a manager, it obtains the manager's information by calling the GetExchangeUser method of the AddressEntry object and the GetExchangeUserManager method of the ExchangeUser object. The manager's information is contained in an ExchangeUser object that includes the manager's free/busy schedule.

If you use Microsoft Visual Studio to test this code sample, you must first add a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 12.0 Object Library component and specify the Outlook variable when you import the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace. The Imports or using statements must not occur right before the functions in the Code section but must be added before the public Class declaration. The following lines of code show how to do the import and assignment in Visual Basic and in C#:

Imports Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

Private Sub GetManagerOpenInterval()
    Const slotLength As Integer = 60
    Dim addrEntry As Outlook.AddressEntry = _
        Application.Session.CurrentUser.AddressEntry
    If addrEntry.Type = "EX" Then
        Dim manager As Outlook.ExchangeUser = _
            Application.Session.CurrentUser. _
            AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser(). _
            GetExchangeUserManager()
        If Not (manager Is Nothing) Then
            Dim freeBusy As String = _
            manager.GetFreeBusy(DateTime.Now, slotLength, True)
            For i As Integer = 1 To freeBusy.Length - 1
                If (freeBusy.Substring(i, 1) = "0") Then
                    ' Get number of minutes into
                    ' the day for free interval
                    Dim busySlot As Double = (i - 1) * slotLength
                    ' Get an actual date/time
                    Dim dateBusySlot As DateTime = _
                        DateTime.Now.Date.AddMinutes(busySlot)
                    If (dateBusySlot.TimeOfDay >= _
                        DateTime.Parse("8:00 AM").TimeOfDay And _
                        dateBusySlot.TimeOfDay <= _
                        DateTime.Parse("5:00 PM").TimeOfDay And _
                        Not (dateBusySlot.DayOfWeek = _
                        DayOfWeek.Saturday Or _
                        dateBusySlot.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Sunday))Then
                        Dim sb As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder()
                        sb.AppendLine( _
                            manager.Name & " first open interval:")
                        sb.AppendLine(dateBusySlot.ToString("f"))
                        Debug.WriteLine(sb.ToString())
                    End If
                End If
            Next
        End If
    End If
End Sub

private void GetManagerOpenInterval()
{
    const int slotLength = 60;
    Outlook.AddressEntry addrEntry =
        Application.Session.CurrentUser.AddressEntry;
    if (addrEntry.Type == "EX")
    {
        Outlook.ExchangeUser manager =
            Application.Session.CurrentUser.
            AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser().GetExchangeUserManager();
        if (manager != null)
        {
            string freeBusy = manager.GetFreeBusy(
                DateTime.Now, slotLength, true);
            for (int i = 1; i < freeBusy.Length; i++)
            {
                if (freeBusy.Substring(i, 1) == "0")
                {
                    // Get number of minutes into
                    // the day for free interval
                    double busySlot = (i - 1) * slotLength;
                    // Get an actual date/time
                    DateTime dateBusySlot =
                        DateTime.Now.Date.AddMinutes(busySlot);
                    if (dateBusySlot.TimeOfDay >=
                        DateTime.Parse("8:00 AM").TimeOfDay &
                        dateBusySlot.TimeOfDay <=
                        DateTime.Parse("5:00 PM").TimeOfDay &
                        !(dateBusySlot.DayOfWeek == 
                        DayOfWeek.Saturday |
                        dateBusySlot.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday))
                    {
                        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                        sb.AppendLine(manager.Name
                            + " first open interval:");
                        sb.AppendLine(dateBusySlot.ToString("f"));
                        Debug.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}