Sync Your SharePoint 2010/2007 Contacts with Outlook

In the article you will see how easy it is to leverage the Social Web Services in SharePoint in your Outlook Add-Ins. In particular I show you how to call the User Profile Services to pull your colleagues from SharePoint and create Outlook contacts.
In 3 Solutions for Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data in Office 2010 you will walkthrough the details on how everything works. Here is a visual walkthrough of the solution.

From SharePoint

To Outlook

Contact Details

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The Code

private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e) 

        { 

            //Instantiate the Web service. 

            UserProfileService userProfileService = 

                            new UserProfileService(); 

 

            //Use the current user log-on credentials. 

            userProfileService.Credentials = 

                System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; 

 

            //Get My Colleagues 

            ContactData[] contacts = 

                userProfileService.GetUserColleagues( 

                "contoso\\danj"); 

 

            //Add each Colleague as an Outlook Contact 

            foreach (ContactData contact in contacts) 

            { 

                //Get the users detailed Properties 

                PropertyData[] properties = 

                userProfileService.GetUserProfileByName(contact.AccountName); 

 

                //Create a new Outlook Contact 

                Outlook.ContactItem newContact = 

                    Globals.ThisAddIn.Application. 

                     CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olContactItem); 

 

                //Set the Contact Properties 

                newContact.FullName = contact.Name; 

                newContact.FirstName = properties[2].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.LastName = properties[4].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.Email1Address = properties[41].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.Department = properties[9].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.JobTitle = properties[10].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.CustomerID = properties[0].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                newContact.PrimaryTelephoneNumber = properties[8].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

                //Notes field 

                newContact.Body = properties[13].Values[0].Value.ToString(); 

 

                //Download the users profile image from SharePoint 

                SetContactImage(properties, newContact); 

 

                newContact.Save(); 

            } 

        } 

You can learn more about SharePoint’s Social Data features here on MSDN. This provides guidance for programmability issues related to user profiles and social data in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. In addition, this includes topics that offer step-by-step, how-to procedures for programming with user profiles and audiences.

Note: This article come from MSDN Blog