Following Code download the iCal file, Host this application in any URL and refer it as Feed in any Calendar application (Google calendar, Microsoft Calendar etc.,)
Requirements:
DDay.iCal library dll
MVC3 .Net 4 framework
Requirements:
DDay.iCal library dll
MVC3 .Net 4 framework
public ActionResult
iCalendar(string DownloadFileName)
{
DDay.iCal.iCalendar iCal = new
DDay.iCal.iCalendar();
// Create the event, and add it to the iCalendar
Event
evt = iCal.Create<Event>();
// Set information about the event
evt.Start
= iCalDateTime.Today.AddHours(8);
evt.End
= evt.Start.AddHours(18); // This also sets the
duration
evt.Description
= "The event description";
evt.Location
= "Event location";
evt.Summary
= "18 hour event summary";
// Set information about the second event
evt
= iCal.Create<Event>();
evt.Start
= iCalDateTime.Today.AddDays(5);
evt.End
= evt.Start.AddDays(1);
evt.IsAllDay
= true;
evt.Summary
= "All-day event";
// Create a serialization context and serializer factory.
// These will be used to build the serializer for our object.
ISerializationContext ctx = new SerializationContext();
ISerializerFactory factory = new
DDay.iCal.Serialization.iCalendar.SerializerFactory();
// Get a serializer for our object
IStringSerializer serializer = factory.Build(iCal.GetType(), ctx) as IStringSerializer;
string
output = serializer.SerializeToString(iCal);
var
contentType = "text/calendar";
var bytes
= Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(output);
return
File(bytes, contentType, DownloadFileName);
}
Thanks, appreciate this. Just what I was looking for.
ReplyDeleteGood information.
ReplyDeleteWhat version of dday are you using? I only found the .Net 2.0 version and Visual studio deletes it whenever I do a clean.
ReplyDeleteI have downloaded DDay iCal from following URL and its working for MVC3
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ddaysoftware.com/Pages/Projects/DDay.iCal/
That worked. Thank you I must have had a older copy.
DeleteOr download using NUGet package Installer
Deletehi, hx for this usefull article
ReplyDeleteim using dattimeoffset in my model, how can i convert that to ical datetime for the start and end dates?
thnx in advance.
best regards, Ahmad
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to make an calendar in MVC and i need to store data in my db.
How can i get the attendees for an event/calendar date?
Try something like this
ReplyDeletevar attendes = new List();
IAttendee reqattendee = new DDay.iCal.Attendee("MAILTO:balajisrmv@gmail.com")
{
CommonName = "Balajiprasad",
Role = "REQ-PARTICIPANT"
};
attendes.Add(reqattendee);
IAttendee optattendee = new DDay.iCal.Attendee("MAILTO:leandro@somemail.com")
{
CommonName = "Leandro",
Role = "OPT-PARTICIPANT"
};
attendes.Add(optattendee);
if (attendes != null && attendes.Count > 0)
{
evt.Attendees = attendes;
}
Refer from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7748246/dday-ical-adding-an-attendee
DeleteThanks, really useful code! nice job.
DeleteBest Regards.
Attendees are added but calendar event mail from iCloud is not coming. Any idea?
DeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteis it possible to create ics file with attachments. If possible how can i do it?
any help is appreciated.
Thankyou
Will this work within a razor view?
ReplyDeletehy can u tell me how to delete icalendar event with start date and end date in asp.net c#
ReplyDeleteHow can I send this ics file as mail attachment ?
ReplyDeletePlease share complete working sample.
ReplyDeleteI don't find any documentation or sample on it.
I'm trying to access Google Calendar.
I get the error, "System.IO.File is a type but is used like a variable" at "File" in the last line "return File(bytes, contentType, DownloadFileName);"
ReplyDeleteHow to assign Start and End Date manually from our code
ReplyDeleteWhy the File at last line giving error? Is there any class called File?
ReplyDeleteDelete event from calendar still NOT working.
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