CDO Person Object

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Contact objects instantiated from Active Directory can be saved to the Web Store; and conversely from the Web Store to Active Directory. CDO handle the underlying information mapping between Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) to the appropriate schema in the Web Store.

The Person object represents a single person who may have a mailbox in the Web Store. The IPerson interface contains a comprehensive set of personal and business information properties that can be set programmatically.

The IPerson interface contains a Fields property that provides access to an Active Directory Object (ADO) Fields collection of contact-related schema fields. These fields provide additional settings, such as BusinessHomePage, that are not CDO properties.

For compatibility with other contact and PIM programs, the IPerson interface contains the GetVCardStream method for saving contact information to a file in a VCARD-compliant Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) format.

The DataSource property provides access to the IDataSource interface on contact objects for saving and opening contact objects to and from the Exchange Web Store or Active Directory. Script users can use the GetInterface method to access the IDataSource interface.

As with Message and Calendar CDO objects, you can directly open a contact object from an ADO Record object.