In the last article you learned how to find a profile and to figure out if it exists or not. Now I’ll tell you how to create and delete profiles.

First, if not already done, you should initialize MAPI and get a IProfAdmin interface.

 

char *pszProfileName; //Name of profile we want to create (update)

// Initialize MAPI.

hr = MAPIInitialize(NULL);

if (!FAILED(hr))

{

                //get IProfAdmin interface

                hr = MAPIAdminProfiles(0, &pProfAdmin);

                if (!FAILED(hr))

{

                                // Create a new empty profile.

                               hr = pProfAdmin->CreateProfile(pszProfileName, NULL, NULL, 0);

                               if (!FAILED(hr))

                                               cout<<”Profile ”<<pszProfileName<<” created successfully”<<endl

                               else

                                               cout<<”Profile ”<<pszProfileName<<” was not created”<<endl

                                }

                }

            As usual don’t forget to release interfaces and uninitialize MAPI.

//Cleanup

                    if (pProfAdmin)             pProfAdmin->Release();

                    MAPIUninitialize();

 

That’s easy.

Just call hr = pProfAdmin->DeleteProfile(pszProfileName, 0) instead of CreateProfile() to delete an existing profile.

 

In conclusion I should explain the fourth parameter in CreateProfile() function. If it’s zero then an empty profile will be created. But if you put MAPI_DEFAULT_SERVICES there, your new created profile will contain default services that were described in the file MAPISVC.INF file under [Default Services] section. Look at this file, we’ll examine it in the next article where we’ll see how to create standard and user defined services within a profile.

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