Software Blog: iCal

Posted under: Web Development

One of the best features of Sitefinity is the Events Module. But while you can easily add and categorize events, and even show a nifty interactive map on the event detail page, there isn't any built-in way to let your visitors add the event to their Outlook calendar.

Fortunately, with the help of DDay.iCal Class Library by Douglas Day, I was able to bring easily incorporate this functionality. The process basically reduces to this:

  1. Retrieve the Event ID from the event details page
  2. Pass that ID to an ashx handler, which returns an iCal item

Installation and Usage

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