VB.NET

Outlook -- Copy Mail Folder and Contents to another Mail Folder

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Copy a mailfolder and its contents to another mailfolder.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

' Use your previously obtained access token here:
http.AuthToken = "MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN"

' This example will copy /Inbox/abc/subFolderA and its contents to /Inbox/xyz
' We'll need the folder ids for both source and destination folders..

' Get the folder IDs from the folder map created by this example 
Dim htFolderMap As New Chilkat.Hashtable
Dim sbMap As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbMap.LoadFile("qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml","utf-8")
htFolderMap.AddFromXmlSb(sbMap)

' Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
Dim srcFolderId As String = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/abc/subFolderA")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Folder ID not found")
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim dstFolderId As String = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/xyz")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Destination folder ID not found")
    Exit Sub
End If


' Create a JSON request body with this content:
' 
' 		{
' 		  "DestinationId": "destinationId-value"
' 		}

Dim jsonRequestBody As New Chilkat.JsonObject
jsonRequestBody.UpdateString("DestinationId",dstFolderId)

http.SetUrlVar("src_folder_id",srcFolderId)

' Copy the source folder to the new location
Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy",jsonRequestBody,"application/json",resp)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' A 201 response indicates success.
If (resp.StatusCode = 201) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Folder copied.")
Else
    Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)
    Debug.WriteLine("Error: Folder not copied.")
End If


' Show the response in both cases..
Dim jsonResponse As New Chilkat.JsonObject
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = False
jsonResponse.Load(resp.BodyStr)
Debug.WriteLine(jsonResponse.Emit())

' A sample successful JSON response looks like this:

' 	{
' 	  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#mailFolder",
' 	  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailFolder",
' 	  "id": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAM6JqMAAAAA=",
' 	  "displayName": "subFolderA",
' 	  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAL8huwEAAAA=",
' 	  "childFolderCount": 1,
' 	  "unreadItemCount": 0,
' 	  "totalItemCount": 0
' 	}