FromICalendar

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I am using FromICalendar to grab information from a VEVENT stream which contains the following…

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060228
SUMMARY:Olympic Break
UID:4B9A46F7-894F-43A9-92E6-2CB1D561EC6C-0442439B-E692-4207-B5E1-3D93A11
C765B
SEQUENCE:4
DTSTAMP:20050728T054628Z
END:VEVENT

I Then generate a pattern object as follows…

RecurrencePattern pattern = RecurrencePattern.FromiCalendar(String theStream)


1st Question
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When I pull the startDate (pattern.StartDate) I get what is given by DTSTART.
The rrule I get (from pattern.ToiCalendar()) is "DTSTART:20060213T000000"

How do I pull the ENDDATE from this?
Should not the rrule have included a “UNTIL:xxxxx” tag?


2nd Question
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If the DTSTART included timeZone info (DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20060411T180000), is there any way I can know what timeZone I get out of pattern.StartDate ?

last Question
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When do u think you will have support classes for things like SUMMARY: or DESCRIPTION: tags?

Thanks for your reply

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Hi,

Aspose.iCalendar deals with recurrence patterns only at the moment and is not supposed to read complete iCalendar events.

Your pattern does not have a recurrence rule (RRULE) therefore you are not getting any meaningful results because from Aspose.iCalendar point of view there is actually nothing to do.

Timezones are ignored in Aspose.iCalendar at the moment and it treats the times as local times.

We do plan to provide an object model for the whole iCalendar standard (and support for timezones) hopefully by the end of 2005.