Collection of AddressEntry object from Global Address List MSDN

Question

Using below code snippet i can get single addressEntry object that is 1st matched. How to get the collection of matching addressEntries objects under global address list.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.AddressList gal = app.Session.GetGlobalAddressList();
Outlook.AddressEntry entry = gal.AddressEntries[name];

Answer 1

You need to iterate over all items in the address list to get all address entries that correspond to your requirements.

Also you may consider calling the GetContactsFolder method of the AddressList class which obtains a Folder object that represents the Contacts folder for the AddressList object. Then you will be able to use the Find/FindNext or Restrict methods to find the corresponding contacts. You can read more about these methods in the following articles:

• How To: Use Find and FindNext to retrieve Outlook Contact items
• How To: Retrieve Outlook Contact items using Restrict method

Answer 2

On the Extended MAPI level (C++ or Delphi), you can create a RES_PROPERTY restriction on PR_ANR (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/outlook/mapi/address-book-restrictions) and call IMAPITable::Restrict on the contents table of the corresponding IABContainer object. This is the same restriction used by Outlook when it resolves a name against a particular container and shows an ambiguous name dialog.

If using Redemption is an option (I am its author), you can use its RDOSession.Addresbook.GAL.ResolveNameEx method (returns RDOAddressEntries collection with the matches):

set Session = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
Session.MAPIOBJECT = Application.Session.MAPIOBJECT
set AdrrEntries = Session.AddressBook.GAL.ResolveNameEx("John")
Debug.Print AdrrEntries.Count & " names were returned by ResolveNameEx:"
for each AE in AdrrEntries
    Debug.Print AE.Name
next