I wonder if anyone else is obsessed with planning and organizing as much as I am. I have set up the calendar for people to download from our site for the Atlanta .NET events, but is that enough? Heck NO! There needs to be more options and more connections for people to be able to use the calendar in the way they want to, not the way I tell them they need to. That is the way I would feel if I was the person using the calendar.

Well I was signing up for a BizTalk event for tomorrow and they had a link to add it to my calendar. Now I know everyone has seen the little link you can make from Outlook to create an event file (.cvs), but I wanted to know how to really create one of these events. So I downloaded the file and opened it with Notepad. As expected I found text in the file and without hesitation I wanted to know what the specification of this file was. Luckily I found out that it is an open standard so I downloaded the developer reference and I am on my way to making a way for the website to allow people to add Calendar appointments to Outlook or any other program that uses vCalendar. I will be getting with Kirk who is the first person that told me that he had already looked into doing this with enclosures for RSS feeds, so I will hopefully get something going soon for people to have choices.  I will post any of the code if it is good enough on www.devcow.com/projects when we are done with that section.

--Brendon Schwartz