How To Check Someone Else's Schedule for Free/Busy Information

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1. Open a new Visual Basic standard executable project.
2. Create a reference to the Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects (1.2, 1.21) Library (Cdo.dll).
3. Create a Command button named Command1 on the form.
4. Copy and paste the following code into the form:

         Private Sub Command1_Click()
           Dim ObjSession As MAPI.Session
           Dim ObjMessage As Message
           Dim ObjAddressEntry As AddressEntry
   
           Set ObjSession = CreateObject("mapi.session")
           ObjSession.Logon profilename:="YourProfileName"
           Set ObjMessage = ObjSession.Inbox.Messages.Add
           Set ObjRecipColl = ObjMessage.Recipients
           Set ObjOneRecip = ObjRecipColl.Add
   
           'Type the alias of the person or the resource account.
           ObjOneRecip.Name = "JoeDoe"
           ObjOneRecip.Resolve
           Set ObjAddressEntry = ObjOneRecip.AddressEntry
   
           'Specify the date/time of the beginning of the first time slot.
           StartTime="1998/06/03 8:00:00 AM"
   
           'Specify the date/time of the end of the last time slot.
           EndTime="1998/06/03 10:00:00 AM"
   
           'Specify the length of each time slot in minutes.
           'If Interval parameter is less than 1, GetFreeBusy returns
           'CdoE_INVALID_PARAMETER.
   
           Interval=60
           'Interval parameter determines the number of time slots.
           'For this example, Interval is set to 60 minutes. Therefore,
           'there will be 2 time slots between the StartTime and the EndTime.
           'The first time slot is between 8:00:00-9:00:00 AM.
           'The second time slot is between 9:00:00-10:00:00 AM.
   
           FreeBusy = ObjAddressEntry.GetFreeBusy(StartTime, EndTime, _
             Interval)
           'Since there are two time slots, the GetFreeBusy method returns a
           'string with length 2. For example, FreeBusy = "21" indicates that
           'there is a tentative commitment during the time slot 1. Also,
           'there is a confirmed commitment during the time slot 2.
   
           Msg = ""
           For i = 1 To Len(FreeBusy)
            Select Case Mid(FreeBusy, i, 1)
             Case "0"
              TempMsg = "Available for meetings/appointments during " & _
              "the time slot " & i & vbLf
             Case "1"
               TempMsg = "At least one tentative commitment during " & _
              "the time slot " & i & vbLf
             Case "2": TempMsg = "At least one confirmed commitment " & _
              "during the time slot " & i & vbLf
             Case "3": TempMsg = "Out-of-office (OOF) for at least  " & _
              "part of the time slot " & i & vbLf
            End Select
            Msg = Msg + TempMsg
           Next
           MsgBox Msg
   
           ObjSession.Logoff
           Set ObjMessage = Nothing
           Set ObjRecipColl = Nothing
           Set ObjOneRecip = Nothing
           Set ObjAddressEntry = Nothing
           Set ObjSession = Nothing
         End Sub
   					

5. Run the project and click Command1. A message box displays free/busy information for each time slot for the selected time frame.