Getting a list of categories

[Guest kingbing]

Hi folks. Does anyone know how to get a list of all the categories there are?

Cheers

[Guest Soyale]

Categories of what?

[Guest kingbing]

Oh yeah. Question made sense in my head.

I'm after the categories you get in pocket outlook, for example, the categories used in the filter in the contacts list. When creating a contact, this is always just a choice of Personal, Business and Miscellaneous, but if you add a new contact via desktop Outlook, and add a new category such as Taxi, this will add it to the list of categories available in the filter menu and when creating/editing a contact.

I've looked at the pocket outlook object model, and can't find a way of getting this list. I guess it could be a MAPI property, but I can't find it. Likewise, it could be a registry setting (like desktop Outlooks is), but I can't find it. There is a "Categories Database" which dbview finds (in the same place as the "Contacts Database" and "Appointments Database"), but it's empty.

Any ideas where I can get this information?

[Guest Soyale]

I think you have to extract manually if memory serves!

[Guest kingbing]

Bah! That sounds too much like hard work...