[aus-dotnet] PST2XML

[Anton Felich]

Hey everyone,
 
Wrote this bout 10 minutes ago for Pete, but thought i'd share :)
 
Basically converts a PST file contents into an XML file... so you can then use XSLT or whatever you want to make it look pretty... I think Pete was intending on putting up our posts in here for reference later on...
 
Anyhoo just run pst2xml.exe from the command line and give it a path to the PST file to convert for you... it will output a file of the same name into the folder where the PST came from..
 
eg.
 
"pst2xml.exe C:\Documents and Settings\Anton\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook"
 
will convert my current outlook folder into an XML file called
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Anton\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.xml
 
Enjoy :)
 
Oh yeah, I wrote it in VB6 so you need the runtimes for that...
 
 
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P.S. There is two problems with it so suggestions would be appreceiated...
 
1. Its just dumping the body and subject contents directly into the XML file... so if your email contains invalid characters that dont fit with ISO 8859-1 then your XML file will not be properly formatted :(
 
2. M$ have 'new' security features in Office 2000 and Office XP that make you 'permit' an external application to connect to it... so you have to press OK before the export will begin... any work arounds?  Other than turning the security features off? Have found a 3rd party OCX control that claims to provide this functionality but im not paying for something like that....

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