Is it possible to have a connection to LotusNotes and use it as a data source for a C# project?

Is it possible to have a connection to LotusNotes and use it as a data source for a开发者_JS百科 C# project?

We use LN for email/calendar. Management wants a web page that would interact with the calendar. I think this can all be done within Notes, but I would much rather do it in .NET.

Some very specific functionality is wanted, some of which I'm not really sure can even be done in Notes.

I know it's possible to interact with LN from C# because we've done it before. We had to wrap their C++ API, but it worked. Unfortunately, I don't have any code to share with you since I no longer work on that project.

I'm not certain what you mean by 'datasource', though.

Do you not have iNotes installed on your mail environment? I would look at using something that's already built instead of starting from scratch.

Have you investigated using the ODBC driver for Notes? It exposes the Notes database as if it were relational.

In my experience, it doesn't perform very well, but if your database is small enough and the transactions few enough, it may suit your purpose.