Windows Phone 7 Calendar programmatic access

Question

Is there any way to interact with the Windows Phone 7 calendar?

I have some basic goals of reading from and writing to the calendar and I'm not sure there is a way to do this.

From what I can vcard and ical support are not even there.

Answer 1

The latest(as of August, 2011) release of WP7, codenamed Mango and WP7.1, DOES allows a read only access to calendar and contacts data.

Best way is to listen directly from horse's mouth. Check out the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202972%28v=VS.92%29.aspx

Answer 2

The current release of Windows Phone 7 does not allow developers to build applications that interact with the Calendar (see this thread). At this stage, as lukas suggested, you need to roll out your own controls and services to synchronize with Google Calendar, Outlook, etc. You can also look at integrating your application with Live Calendar (see MickN's links in this thread)

HTH, indyfromoz