[APP] [Jun 25, 2009] B2C - Birthday2Calendar 0.2

[nemoid]

Description: This is a very simple application. It annoys me to all hell that if you have birthdays assigned to your contacts, Windows Mobile will not automatically add them to the calendar. Every phone I've had previous to my WM phone does this. Yeah, you can sync to Outlook, but I refuse to set Outlook up for something that should be done natively.

What's even more frustrating is that the WM5 SDK has a simple code sample (which is where I started this from) to accomplish this task yet it's still not included.

Anyways... this is my first WM application and I think it does it's job pretty well for now.

Notes:

• It currently does not duplicate entries. It will only create entries for birthday's that aren't currently in the calendar. However, if you have a birthday alert set up, but it's not in the form of the contact's "FirstName LastName's Birthday" -- it will duplicate it.

Changelog:
Version 0.2:
[+] Added ability to customize reminder time for birthday alerts.
[#] Fixed birthday start date (it now starts the event on the contact's birthday and shows their age on the event subject)
[#] Fixed bug where events couldn't be edited because of incorrect end time
[#] Fixed other minor bugs

Version 0.1:
[+] Initial Release

Todo:

• Make it pretty?
• Add support for anniversaries
• Choose "Status" for event. Ie: Free, Busy, Tentative.

If you guys find any bugs/problems, or simply have any comments, criticism, or suggestions, please let me know. The goal of this program is simply to do what it does. However if I can improve it in any way I definitely will.



Head over to XDA to download it

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529857

[nuuuuts]

great application. I've downloaded it and I like it so far. I'm currently using the Rhodium manilla and it does ask for the birthday but never does it add to your calendar. I love it so far, can't wait to see what it will be like once your to do list gets shorter. EXCELLENT!!!

[redd214]

i was just thinking about this the other day! appreciate you bringing it to our attention!

[chocmatic]

I receive the following error "the query string is incorrectly formatted. Parameter name: [Birthday] <> Mon Jan 01 00:00:00"

Anyway to get rid of this error

[otbox21]

This is exactly the app I need for my new Touch Pro 2, but when I try to run it, it gives me an error telling me I need to be running a newer version of .NET Compact Framework. I figured all that stuff was up to date on a new phone...

help! thanks.

[BenC]

Net 3.5 is the current release.

[nemoid]

Originally Posted by chocmatic

I receive the following error "the query string is incorrectly formatted. Parameter name: [Birthday] <> Mon Jan 01 00:00:00"

Anyway to get rid of this error

it's probably a bad short date format set in WM regional settings (jjj mm jj aa)

[av8or]

i was just noticing this the other day that the birthdays were not showing up on the phone, but they were showing up in outlook but some of them were a day off there (while trying to figure out what was goin on i checked it because i never use outlook)