I have a website that is a calendar with all the basic features (ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server). People can enter events, view others events, etc. One person asked me if there was a way they can see these events in their Outlook calendar – as a second calendar.
I have all of the data on the server. Is there a recommended way to have Outlook point to my web server or DB for a calendar? I see there are ways to generate iCal files from C#.
If so, how would this data stay in sync as new events are created, deleted, etc? A one time dump would be ok but the concern would be that the data would get stale. Is there a solution that would keep the reference dynamic to keep them in sync. (it would only need to be a one way transfer, i don’t expect the need to create or delete from Outlook, so outlook is just read only)
I think you can create iCalendar file,then publish it ,so let clients subscribe your internet calendar because internet calendar subscription is periodically synchronized with a calendar that is saved on a web server,and any updates to the internet calendar are downloaded automatically into MS Outlook.
You can use DDay.Ical library for creating (.ics) files using C#.