EWS - Get Items from 'Draft' folder " This property was requested, but it wasn't returned by the server"
This is a blog post dedicated for people that are working with Exchange Web Server Library (EWS). This is wrapper over EWS API that gives the possibility to a developer to interrogate and communicate with an Exchange Server.
When we are loading the list of emails from a folder we would have the following code:
This solution will works for 99% or the cases, except one. When we want to load the items from ‘Draft’ folder. Surprise, we don’t have the ‘SentDate’ set. Of course this is normal, but EWS library will throw an ugly exception.
Well, the solution is pretty simple. We don’t need to access this property directly, using ‘DateTimeSent’ property. ‘TryGetProperty’ needs to be used in this case. This method give us the possibility to check if a property was set. It is similar with ‘TryParse’. The only difference is that we need to specify what property we want to get.
Each entity type was a XXXSchema class, where all the properties are defined. In our case, to be able to manage this case, we should have the following code:
When we are loading the list of emails from a folder we would have the following code:
ExchangeService service = ...
string folderId = ...
ItemView itemView = ...
Folder folder = Folder
.Bind(service, new FolderId(folderId));
FindItemsResults<Item> items = folder
.FindItems(searchFilter, itemView);
We get a list of ‘Item’ that we can manipulate by us. It is very easy to extract different email details like ‘Subject’, ‘Id’ or ‘SentDate’.This solution will works for 99% or the cases, except one. When we want to load the items from ‘Draft’ folder. Surprise, we don’t have the ‘SentDate’ set. Of course this is normal, but EWS library will throw an ugly exception.
Item item = ...
DateTime sentDate = item.DateTimeSent;
What should we do for this case?Well, the solution is pretty simple. We don’t need to access this property directly, using ‘DateTimeSent’ property. ‘TryGetProperty’ needs to be used in this case. This method give us the possibility to check if a property was set. It is similar with ‘TryParse’. The only difference is that we need to specify what property we want to get.
Each entity type was a XXXSchema class, where all the properties are defined. In our case, to be able to manage this case, we should have the following code:
DateTime sentTime;
bool isSentTimeSet = item
.TryGetProperty(
EmailMessageSchema.DateTimeSent,
out sentTime);
if (isSentTimeSet)
{
itemHeader.SentDate = sentTime;
}
Enjoy!
Great article, just what I wanteed to find.
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