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Using Microsoft's EWS to create online Lync/Skype meeting

Anybody knows how to create meeting request with online conference(Lync/Skype) using EWS?
So my approach is first getting an online and regular meeting created via Outlook and then simulate the creation of event with the same property.
Here is my code snippet for getting the meeting (calendarView is already initialized with start date, end date etc.):
ExtendedPropertyDefinition extendedOnlineMeetingProperty =
new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(new Guid("{00062008-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}"), 34112,
MapiPropertyType.Integer);
var properties = new PropertySet(
ItemSchema.Id,
AppointmentSchema.ICalUid,
ItemSchema.Subject,
AppointmentSchema.Start,
AppointmentSchema.End,
AppointmentSchema.Organizer,
AppointmentSchema.Location,
AppointmentSchema.LegacyFreeBusyStatus,
AppointmentSchema.IsCancelled,
AppointmentSchema.ICalRecurrenceId,
AppointmentSchema.MyResponseType, // Mandatory Meeting.MyResponseType can be retrieved without a search in the participant list
ItemSchema.LastModifiedTime,
AppointmentSchema.IsOnlineMeeting,
AppointmentSchema.IsMeeting,
ItemSchema.DisplayTo) { };
properties.Add(extendedOnlineMeetingProperty);
var activeResults = service.FindAppointments(WellKnownFolderName.Calendar, calendarView).ToList();
if (activeResults.Count > 0)
{
service.LoadPropertiesForItems(activeResults, properties);
}
I got the property IsOnlineMeeting with the correct bool value (tested -
created online and regular meeting with Outlook) in variable activeResults but I do not understand where to get conference link and other Lync/Skype properties needed for joining a conference.
Also I am not sure where and how to assign the values of Lync/Skype conference URL and other properties.
Sometimes I ask myself if it's worth it to developed some app based on MS products since their documentation suck.

After one week of cursing MS I have found a solution. Using the tool MFCMAPI you can check what property and their values your item in mailbox have.
download the program link
build and run it
Session - Logon - choose your mail profile - pick the mailbox and double click
actions - open special folder - calendar - double click on calendar
open the item with online S4B/Lync conference
the UC* properties are the one I was looking for.
If you open the property you can see something like this on the top:
ag: 0x8096001E
Type: PT_STRING8
DASL: http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/{00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/UCMeetingSetting
Named Prop Name: UCMeetingSetting
Named Prop Guid: {00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} = PS_PUBLIC_STRINGS
So my definition of the extended property was wrong. It is not only one property but actually you need all 7 of them.
So the definition should be:
private static ExtendedPropertyDefinition CreateOnlineMeetingProperty()
{
ExtendedPropertyDefinition extendedUCMeetingSetting =
new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(new Guid("{00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"), "UCMeetingSetting",
MapiPropertyType.String);
return extendedUCMeetingSetting;
}
With the correct extended definition you can get the values from the item easily.
accessing the Value of ExtendedProperties
Calling TryGetProperty
var activeResults = service.FindAppointments(new
FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.Calendar, resource.Email),calendarView).ToList();
service.LoadPropertiesForItems(activeResults, properties);
foreach (Appointment result in activeResults)
{
// 1.
var b = result.ExtendedProperties[1].Value;
// 2.
string UCMeetingSetting;
result.TryGetProperty(extendedUCMeetingSetting, out UCMeetingSetting);
}
using steps above you can get whatever extended property you want, not only Unified Communications (UC) properties.

Ok, I managed to have this working (almost!) by setting just one of the extended properties:
appointment.SetExtendedProperty(
new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(
new Guid("00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"),
"OnlineMeetingExternalLink",
MapiPropertyType.String
),
skypeMeeting.JoinUrl
);
I say almost because the appointment doesn't look exactly like a Skype meeting when you open it in Outlook: doesn't have the footer will the Join link and phone number etc.
Maybe there are other differences, but for now we see it in Skype for business with the Join button and also we see the it in the Outlook reminder with the Join button.
As a workaround, we have to hard-code the body content of the appointment.
Also conference ID, can be taken using UCWA 2.0 (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/skype-sdk/ucwa/myonlinemeetings_ref)
We used UCWA 2.0 to create the Skype conference call and attached it to the EWS appointment object.

How to Update Account in StripeApi using C#?

I am trying to update Account in Stripe Api using Stripe.netlibrary ,using StripeAccountService and storing it in StripeAccountclass which i made by myself to store the result returned by API :
var accountService = new StripeAccountService("secretKey in string");
StripeRequestOptions option = new StripeRequestOptions();
option.StripeConnectAccountId = "AccountId to update";
StripeAccount x = accountService.Get(option);
x.Email = "Local#local.com";
//Then i do not know how to save changes back to api now.
But StripeAccountService class has no Update method define. How I can perform update on the Account.
I am using this library. Stripe api does have an update method too here.

Stripe.net does not support managed accounts: "Managed Accounts are a valuable service as well, but they are not available in Stripe.net yet." https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net#stripe-connect

Stripe.net doesnot support Managed account but it can be done using following approach it is for update account.
I won't be able to give code but can provide the correct approach, it is tested.
https://api.stripe.com/v1/account
is the Url for updating stripe account.
Now you need to add two header and a body you can try WebRequest or httpclient class.
The reason i am unable to provide code because i did not do any research in adding multiple headers and a body.
so it would look something like this
Header
Property value
Authorization bearer "SecretKey"
Stripe-Account "acct_16uR8kKN01245679"
Body
Property value
email "test#test.com"
support_phone "555-867-5309"
You can see complete property list here. i picked few for demonstration purpose only.
Then save the response in any variable and it is done.

how to do API calls of Kentico using ASP.NET MVC?

I'm struggling with API calls of Kentico forms using ASP.NET MVC, so that I can use AngularJS to display the return data (JSON format).
Specifically, my client is using Kentico on their server to create data using "Forms" on Kentico and I want to get the records stored in these forms via API calls using ASP.NET MVC. What I'm thinking is that in the general section of the "Forms", I see the "Form code name" showing that "Code name is a string identifier of the object that can be used by developers in API calls or URLs". But it seems to be there's no good example of it on internet. Keep trying to search it but no luck. I also tried to access data directly in SQL Server in which kentico stores the data. But the table's name that Kentico uses in SQL Server to store the data is different from the ones in "Forms" or "Custom tables" in Kentico.
Hope someone can show me how to do it and I really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

There is a very good example in the official documentation of Kentico.
Please note that Forms have been renamed a few times in the past (they were called BizForms and On-Line forms) that's the reason why the code below references CMS.OnlineForms and uses BizFormInfoProvider. It might also very well be the reason why you didn't find any good example :)
The example below shows how to retrieve Form's definition (metadata), get all the data and iterate through it.
using CMS.OnlineForms;
using CMS.DataEngine;
using CMS.SiteProvider;
using CMS.Helpers;
...
// Gets the form info object for the 'ContactUs' form
BizFormInfo formObject = BizFormInfoProvider.GetBizFormInfo("ContactUs", SiteContext.CurrentSiteID);
// Gets the class name of the 'ContactUs' form
DataClassInfo formClass = DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClassInfo(formObject.FormClassID);
string className = formClass.ClassName;
// Loads the form's data
ObjectQuery<BizFormItem> data = BizFormItemProvider.GetItems(className);
// Checks whether the form contains any records
if (!DataHelper.DataSourceIsEmpty(data))
{
// Loops through the form's data records
foreach (BizFormItem item in data)
{
string firstNameFieldValue = item.GetStringValue("FirstName", "");
string lastNameFieldValue = item.GetStringValue("LastName", "");
// Perform any required logic with the form field values
// Variable representing a custom value that you want to save into the form data
object customFieldValue;
// Programatically assigns and saves a value for the form record's 'CustomField' field
item.SetValue("CustomField", customFieldValue);
item.SubmitChanges(false);
}
}
UPDATE:
The example above assumes that you're using the API from within the running Kentico instance. If you want to use Kentico API (DLLs) from an external application please follow the steps I described in another answer.
You also asked about the site identifier (siteId or siteName params of the BizFormInfoProvider.GetBizFormInfo() method). They refer to the SiteInfo object in Kentico (DB table CMS_Site). You can find site name if you navigate to Site->Edit site->General->Site code name.
If you don't want to use Kentico DLLs there is another option - using Kentico REST endpoint.

sending and retrieving data to API

I have a solution with 2 projects:
Contains the API
the module where i can select data (combobox etc...)
in the second module i select the API as reference that way i should be able to use data from the first module (my API) using Mollie.Api;
The First thing i want to do is fill a combobow with all the issuers, they should be in issuers.data:
Issuers issuers = mollieClient.GetIssuers();
foreach (Issuer issuer in issuers.data)
{
comboBox1.Items.Add(issuer.name);
}
the problem i have is: mollieClient does not exist in current context
i want to fill another combobox with methods but when i try to do it how they say i should do it doesnt work:
Method methods = new Method();
methods = Mollie.Api.Method.all();
however when i do:
Mollie.Api.Method.* the helper gives me then all the possible methods at *, but how can i get them automaticly in my combobox?
The second thing is when the method and issuer is selected i want to send that data back to the API. The API should be able to proces this and send me a message back that the transaction was a succes.

It appears like you're using mollie-api-csharp. You've written mollieClient, but according to the source Mollie.Api.MollieClient should start with a capital letter.
EDIT: Looks like you're following the how-to-use tutorial from the repo.
I think you forgot to create the MollieClient instance before getting the issuers.
MollieClient mollieClient = new MollieClient();
mollieClient.setApiKey("your_api_key_here");

Is it possible to request a user's full profile using DotNetOpenAuth and the LinkedIn Developer Toolkit?

When requesting an access token using DotNetOpenAuth, it is only authenticating a basic user profile.
at Authorization.BeginAuthorize();
Is there some way of asking the user to authenticate against their full profile, perhaps by specifying something in the token manager?
I know that when making a POST to the LinkedIn API, you add the scope parameter but is there any way of doing this using DotNetOpenAuth and the LinkedIn Developer Toolkit?
https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/requestToken?scope=r_fullprofile
I can also see that in the LinkedIn Developer Toolkit there are many ProfileField enums for the full profile so I assume that they can be accessed in this manner. e.g.
ProfileField.Industry
ProfileField.ThreeCurrentPositions

I was looking for a way to do this too. You'll need to extend the LinkedIn Developer Toolkit.
Download the source
Add the following function overload to WebOAuthAuthorization.cs
public void BeginAuthorize(Uri callback, IDictionary<string, string> requestParameters)
{
this.Consumer.Channel.Send(this.Consumer.PrepareRequestUserAuthorization(callback, requestParameters, null));
}
Compile it and add a reference to it in your project (remove NuGet package if you were using it). Then you'll be able to call it from your code, like so:
WebOAuthAuthentication webAuth = new WebOAuthAuthentication(LinkedInTokenManager, null);
Uri callback = new Uri("http://your.callback.uri");
Dictionary<string, string> requestParameters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
requestParameters.Add("scope", "r_fullprofile r_network");
webAuth.BeginAuthorize(callback, requestParameters);
As for your second question, the profile fields ENUM is for passing into the GetCurrentUser method (and probably others) to specify what fields to return, for example
LinkedInService li = new LinkedInService(webAuth);
List<ProfileField> fields = new List<ProfileField>();
fields.Add(ProfileField.ThreeCurrentPositions);
fields.Add(ProfileField.Industry);
Person person = li.GetCurrentUser(ProfileType.Standard, fields);
These fields are then accessible on the Person object (fields that you don't specifiy are null).