Question

I am using Exchange Web Services to try to get a list of all Outlook tasks which are not complete.

I have an instance of ExchangeService, and attempt to find all incomplete tasks like this:

SearchFilter searchFilter = new SearchFilter.IsNotEqualTo(TaskSchema.Status, TaskStatus.NotStarted);
FindItemsResults<Item> tasks = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Tasks, searchFilter, view);

However, on the last line, I get a “ServiceResponseException: The specified value is invalid for property.” This seems weird to me because the EWS documentation explicitly states that the Task.Status is supposed to be one of the TaskStatus enumeration values. Creating a SearchFilter which compares against a string value does not cause an exception, but I haven’t tried any of the other enumeration options to see whether they give the same behavior.

Answer 1

I am able to do this using ExtendedPropertyDefinition with Exchange 2007.

I am using PidLidTaskComplete Canonical Property.

Full list of named properties available here.

//Create the extended property definition.
ExtendedPropertyDefinition taskCompleteProp = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(DefaultExtendedPropertySet.Task, 0x0000811C, MapiPropertyType.Boolean);
//Create the search filter.
SearchFilter.IsEqualTo filter = new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(taskCompleteProp, false);                    
//Get the tasks.
FindItemsResults<Item> tasks = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Tasks, filter, new ItemView(50));