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C# Google Calendar

Everything is already setup on the google calendar api (not sure if i configure correctly or i missed something out)
I created a c# console application,that writes an appointment to google calendar.
What i want to achieve is that , i want to get all the user's or subscriber who subscribe to my app, so what i can write
on there calendar if there is an event.
What configuration do i need?

That's actually a multi-domain problem.
Some questions to consider:
What calender is it? A public one?
How do they subscribe with your console?
What happens when the software shuts down, crashes, etc?
Do you need to know the event after it was written to the calendars?
If not, do new subscriber get previously added calender entries?
Other than that, you should have a look at Webclient. Then we have here the reference for the Google Calendar API. The main request method you're searching is this one: Events Insert. With that, we can craft our own inseration variant.
```
private readonly List<string> _calendarIDs;
/* lets assume you imported webrequests and you're going to write a method
* Further we assume, you have a List of calendars as object attribute
*/
public void InsertEntry(DateTime start, DateTime end,
string title, string description) {
using(var client = new WebClient()) {
var epochTicks = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
var values = new NameValueCollection();
values["attachements[].fileUrl"] = "";
values["attendees[].email"] = "";
values["end.date"] = end.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
values["end.dateTime"] = (end - epoch).Seconds;
values["reminders.overrides[].minutes"] = 0;
values["start.date"] = start.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
values["start.dateTime"] = (start - epoch).Seconds;
values["summary"] = title; // This is the calendar entrys title
values["description"] = description;
foreach(string calendarID in _calendarIDs) {
var endpoint = String.Format("https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/{0}/events", calendarID)
var response = client.UploadValues(endpoint, values);
var responseString = Encoding.Default.GetString(response);
}
}
This is a minimal example and the api has a lot of endpoints and parameter. You should have a deep look into it, maybe you find more useful parameter.

Below is the sample code,
GoogleCalendarUtils utils = new GoogleCalendarUtils();
ArrayList months = /* the list of months*/;
// Update the content window.
foreach( ThistleEventMonth month in months )
{
foreach( ThistleEvent thistleEvent in month.ThistleEvents )
{
utils.InsertEntry( thistleEvent );
}
}

NetSuite custom record search through suiteTalk using C#

We are having an issue with searching a custom record through SuiteTalk. Below is a sample of what we are calling. The issue we are having is in trying to set up the search using the internalId of the record. The issue here lies in in our initial development account the internal id of this custom record is 482 but when we deployed it through the our bundle the record was assigned with the internal Id of 314. It would stand to reason that this internal id is not static in a site per site install so we wondered what property to set up to reference the custom record. When we made the record we assigned its “scriptId’ to be 'customrecord_myCustomRecord' but through suitetalk we do not have a “scriptId”. What is the best way for us to allow for this code to work in all environments and not a specific one? And if so, could you give an example of how it might be used.
Code (C#) that we are attempting to make the call from. We are using the 2013.2 endpoints at this time.
private SearchResult NetSuite_getPackageContentsCustomRecord(string sParentRef)
{
List<object> PackageSearchResults = new List<object>();
CustomRecord custRec = new CustomRecord();
CustomRecordSearch customRecordSearch = new CustomRecordSearch();
SearchMultiSelectCustomField searchFilter1 = new SearchMultiSelectCustomField();
searchFilter1.internalId = "customrecord_myCustomRecord_sublist";
searchFilter1.#operator = SearchMultiSelectFieldOperator.anyOf;
searchFilter1.operatorSpecified = true;
ListOrRecordRef lRecordRef = new ListOrRecordRef();
lRecordRef.internalId = sParentRef;
searchFilter1.searchValue = new ListOrRecordRef[] { lRecordRef };
CustomRecordSearchBasic customRecordBasic = new CustomRecordSearchBasic();
customRecordBasic.recType = new RecordRef();
customRecordBasic.recType.internalId = "314"; // "482"; //THIS LINE IS GIVING US THE TROUBLE
//customRecordBasic.recType.name = "customrecord_myCustomRecord";
customRecordBasic.customFieldList = new SearchCustomField[] { searchFilter1 };
customRecordSearch.basic = customRecordBasic;
// Search for the customer entity
SearchResult results = _service.search(customRecordSearch);
return results;
}

I searched all over for a solution to avoid hardcoding internalId's. Even NetSuite support failed to give me a solution. Finally I stumbled upon a solution in NetSuite's knowledgebase, getCustomizationId.
This returns the internalId, scriptId and name for all customRecord's (or customRecordType's in NetSuite terms! Which is what made it hard to find.)
public string GetCustomizationId(string scriptId)
{
// Perform getCustomizationId on custom record type
CustomizationType ct = new CustomizationType();
ct.getCustomizationTypeSpecified = true;
ct.getCustomizationType = GetCustomizationType.customRecordType;
// Retrieve active custom record type IDs. The includeInactives param is set to false.
GetCustomizationIdResult getCustIdResult = _service.getCustomizationId(ct, false);
foreach (var customizationRef in getCustIdResult.customizationRefList)
{
if (customizationRef.scriptId == scriptId) return customizationRef.internalId;
}
return null;
}

you can make the internalid as an external property so that you can change it according to environment.
The internalId will be changed only when you install first time into an environment. when you deploy it into that environment, the internalid will not change with the future deployments unless you choose Add/Rename option during deployment.

Retrieve Entries from Google Calendar

I'm working on a function that retrieves Events from a google calendar. I have implemented it according the tutorial found here
The function does work but only retrieves a maximum of 25 events and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
That's my function
void retrieveEvents()
{
EventQuery query = new EventQuery();
CalendarService service = new CalendarService("MyTest");
service.setUserCredentials("email", "password");
service.QueryClientLoginToken();
query.Uri = new Uri("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/USER-ID/private/full");
query.StartTime = new DateTime(2010, 1, 1);
query.EndTime = DateTime.Now;
EventFeed calfeed = service.Query(query);
foreach (EventEntry ee in calfeed.Entries)
{
ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem(ee.Title.Text + "\r\n");
listEvents.Items.Add(lvi);
}
}

First off, v2 is deprecated. You really should move your code up to using v3 of the API.
From the FAQ:
How do I retrieve more than 25 results in an event feed?
You can use the query parameter max-results to retrieve more than the default 25. If you wish to retrieve all of the events in a feed, set the max-results parameter to a really large number. You can also page through events by taking advantage of the next links, available as child elements of a feed.

How to delete all event entries from a specific calendar from Google calendar API .NET

I am trying editing a tool to allow a user to select from a list of their calendars and then clear all event entries / add new ones based on Microsoft project tasks.
Heres the original tool: http://daball.github.com/Microsoft-Project-to-Google-Calendar/
I am completely unexperienced with Google APIs / the calendar API, and am having some trouble. The program I'm editing keeps track of which CalendarEntry the user has selected from a list of their calendars. What I am currently trying to do is create a EventFeed which gives me the EventEntries of that selected calendar, so I can then delete all of them. The purpose of this is to allow someone to use this tool to also update the calendar from the project file whenever changes are made. Here's my function attempting the delete.
private void clearPreviousCalendarEntries(CalendarEntry calendarEntry)
{
EventQuery query = new EventQuery();
query.Uri = new Uri(calendarEntry.Links[0].AbsoluteUri);
EventFeed feed = (EventFeed)calendarService.Query(query);
AtomFeed batchFeed = new AtomFeed(feed);
foreach (EventEntry entry in feed.Entries)
{
entry.Id = new AtomId(entry.EditUri.ToString());
entry.BatchData = new GDataBatchEntryData(GDataBatchOperationType.delete);
batchFeed.Entries.Add(entry);
}
EventFeed batchResultFeed = (EventFeed)calendarService.Batch(batchFeed, new Uri(feed.Batch));
foreach (EventEntry entry in batchResultFeed.Entries)
{
if (entry.BatchData.Status.Code != 200 && entry.BatchData.Status.Code != 201)
this.listBoxResults.SelectedIndex = this.listBoxResults.Items.Add("Problem deleteing " + entry.Title.Text + " error code: " + entry.BatchData.Status.Code);
else
this.listBoxResults.SelectedIndex = this.listBoxResults.Items.Add("Deleted " + entry.Title.Text);
}
}
My feed doesn't return the results I was hoping for, but to be honest I'm not sure how to request the events correctly.
query.Uri = new Uri(calendarEntry.Links[0].AbsoluteUri); is something I grabbed from the portion of the program which is adding event to a specific calendar
AtomEntry insertedEntry = calendarService.Insert(new Uri(calendarEntry.Links[0].AbsoluteUri), eventEntry);
These posts are definitely related to what I'm looking for but I haven't arrived at a solution
google-calendar-get-events-from-a-specific-calendar
how can i retrieve a event exclusive from a calendar that i created (not default one)?

Try something like this:
CalendarService myService = new CalendarService("your calendar name");
myService.setUserCredentials(username, password);
CalendarEntry calendar;
try
{
calendar = (CalendarEntry)myService.Get(http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/owncalendars/full/45kk8jl9nodfri1qgepsb65fnc%40group.calendar.google.com);
foreach (AtomEntry item in calendar.Feed.Entries)
{
item.Delete();
}
}
catch (GDataRequestException)
{
}
You can find "Calendar ID" (something like this: 45kk8jl9nodfri1qgepsb65fnc%40group.calendar.google.com) from Calendar Details page inside Google Calendar.
this is a related post:
google calendar api asp.net c# delete event
this is a useful doc:
http://code.google.com/intl/it-IT/apis/calendar/data/2.0/developers_guide_dotnet.html

A way I eventually arrived at was gathering the calendarID from the URI of the calendar, and then creating a new EventQuery using that id. Here's the new version of the code above
private void clearPreviousCalendarEntries(CalendarEntry calendarEntry)
{
this.listBoxResults.SelectedIndex = this.listBoxResults.Items.Add("Clearing previous calender entries");
String calendarURI = calendarEntry.Id.Uri.ToString();
//The last part of the calendarURI contains the calendarID we're looking for
String calendarID = calendarURI.Substring(calendarURI.LastIndexOf("/")+1);
EventQuery query = new EventQuery();
query.Uri = new Uri("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/" + calendarID + "/private/full");
EventFeed eventEntries = calendarService.Query(query);
AtomFeed batchFeed = new AtomFeed(eventEntries);
foreach (AtomEntry entry in eventEntries.Entries)
{
entry.Id = new AtomId(entry.EditUri.ToString());
entry.BatchData = new GDataBatchEntryData(GDataBatchOperationType.delete);
batchFeed.Entries.Add(entry);
}
EventFeed batchResultFeed = (EventFeed)calendarService.Batch(batchFeed, new Uri(eventEntries.Batch));
//check the return values of the batch operations to make sure they all worked.
//the insert operation should return a 201 and the rest should return 200
bool success = true;
foreach (EventEntry entry in batchResultFeed.Entries)
{
if (entry.BatchData.Status.Code != 200 && entry.BatchData.Status.Code != 201)
{
success = false;
listBoxResults.SelectedIndex = listBoxResults.Items.Add("The batch operation for " +
entry.Title.Text + " failed.");
}
}
if (success)
{
listBoxResults.SelectedIndex = listBoxResults.Items.Add("Calendar event clearing successful!");
}
}
I'm not particular happy with this, it seems odd to use string manipulation to gather the info and chop together my own query. But it works and I have been struggling to find a way to get this done.

How to Query for an event log details with a given event id?

How to know whether a particular event (given event ID, time and node as inputs) is logged or not? [In this case, I know only one event will be logged]
If the event is logged, how do I get details like event description, Log-name etc..
for eg, I want to query for an event under the node Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > groupPolicy > Operational, and event id is 5315 and time is current time.

There are a few new twists if your going to query events from the new style Windows EventLogs.
You will have to use the classes from the System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader namespace to read the new events.
Your query will be in Xpath form, so that time value is tricky, see msdn for the EventLogQuery definition.
Your program will run into access issues, be ready to impersonate a user that's included in the EventReaders AD group on the logging machine.
This sample shows some of the new access methods:
string eventID = "5312";
string LogSource = "Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational";
string sQuery = "*[System/EventID=" + eventID + "]";
var elQuery = new EventLogQuery(LogSource, PathType.LogName, sQuery);
using (var elReader = new System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogReader(elQuery))
{
List<EventRecord> eventList = new List<EventRecord>();
EventRecord eventInstance = elReader.ReadEvent();
try
{
for (null != eventInstance; eventInstance = elReader.ReadEvent())
{
//Access event properties here:
//eventInstance.LogName;
//eventInstance.ProviderName;
eventList.Add(eventInstance);
}
}
finally
{
if (eventInstance != null)
eventInstance.Dispose();
}
}

You could query the event log in question:
var sourceName = "MySource";
var el = new EventLog("Application");
var latestEntryTime = (from entry in el.Entries.Cast<EventLogEntry>()
where entry.Source == sourceName
&& // put other where clauses here...
orderby entry.TimeWritten descending
select entry).First();
However, be warned that this approach is slow, since the Entries collection tends to be quite big.