DDay.iCal is an iCalendar class library written in C# and based on the RFC 2445 standard. It parses files in the iCalendar format and provides an object-oriented interface to iCalendar components: Event, Todo, TimeZone, Journal, FreeBusy, and Alarm.
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DDay iCal - adding an Attendee
How does one add required/optional attendees + organizer(s) to an iCal event?
I'm using the excellent DDay library, and would love to be able to also add a CN, but haven't found any examples in the documentation, the downloaded examples or…

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Does Apple/Google provide specifications for iCal field support in iOS or Android?
I'm attempting to publish a proprietary software calendar via iCal (using the DDay.iCal package, if that matters) so that customers can view their appointments on their phone or tablet (or in any other piece of software that supports iCal, such as…

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clickonce - what is a good open source alternative to clickonce? (DDay.Update)?
What is a good open source alternative to clickonce? One that is most popular and under active development I guess?
DDay.Update perhaps? Is this the main one?
thanks
PS. I've come up with a few from searching, but would appreciate any feedback…

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ics Alarms are not appearing in Google Calendar or Outlook
I'm a bit surprised I did not find a solution or answer to this question because there appears to be a lot devs out there experiencing it.
I'm generating an ics file with the help of DDay.ical but the VALARMS are not setting reminders in google…

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How do I create an Outlook "appointment" with DDay.iCal?
I'm using the DDay library to create an iCal event, so that users of my site can add something to their calendar.
I want them to add an appointment as opposed to a meeting request in Office 2010 (and hopefully others too). When I use the library and…

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Parsing Google calendar to DDay.iCal
I'm working on application which parses Google Calendar via Google API to DDay.iCal
The main attributes, properties are handled easily... ev.Summary = evt.Title.Text;
The problem is when I got an recurring event, the XML contains a field…

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Does DDay Ical library calculate recurring rules correctly?
I've run some tests. Here is my code:
var systemTimeZone = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Pacific Standard Time");
var icalTimeZone = iCalTimeZone.FromSystemTimeZone(systemTimeZone);
var startTimeSearch = new DateTime(2015, 9, 8, 0, 0, 0,…

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How to add authentication to ASP.NET hosted ICS iCalendar for outlook
I have an ASP.NET application which dynamically creates an ICS calendar (using the DDay.iCal library) which I can subscribe to from within outlook. All is working fine, but I need to be able to secure the calendar so that only authenticated users…

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How do I prevent DDay.ical ics files from repeating duplication events during SerializeToString function call
Hope some one can help. Using the DDay.iCal version 1.0.1.490 with .net version 2 I get duplicate events events after calling the SerilizeToString method.
Example Code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using…

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Adding X-WR-CALNAME to DDay.iCal.iCalendar.Calendar
I'm using the excellent DDay.iCal to read iCal files from Google Calendar.
Each iCal file has a non-standard property of X-WR-CALNAME.
How do I add this to the DDay.iCal.iCalendar.Calendar object?

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Deserialize iCal using DDay.iCal, can't find the properties
I'm trying to deserialize an iCal file and then map the collection to a custom POCO. The problem is that I'm not sure where the properties are stored.
Here's the Deserialization method
public static IICalendarCollection Deserialize(String…

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When using the DDay ical library, How do you indicate busy versus free versus out office?
I am using the DDal ical library which works great but i just realized that i wanted to see how to indicate an event as out of office versus busy (so it shows up different when loaded in microsoft outlook
I see the property listed on this microsoft…

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Ical.net ICS file imported into Outlook is off one hour
Last Fall I replaced the DDay iCal component with iCal.net in a scheduling application. We are in the Central U.S. timezone, and all times in our database are in the local time.
Most of our users take the .ics file produced by iCal.net and import…

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DDay.ICal with google calendar returning multiple occurances
I have an ics file from google (attached below) and when I open the same in outlook, it doesnt add any event on the date mentioned in the file "20120823". But in DDay.ICal dll I use for programatically fetching the calendar events, the dll returns…

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DDay.iCal outlook compatibility with time zones and recurrence patterns
I've had some luck getting outlook to accept my .ics files via email and interpret them as calendar invites but I'm running into problems with time zones.
Initially, I discovered that if all my dates are supplied in UTC, Outlook does the right thing…

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