EWS - how can I find all incomplete tasks?

I am using Exchange Web Services to try and get a list of all Outlook tasks that have not completed.

I have an instance of ExchangeService and am trying to find all pending tasks like this:

SearchFilter searchFilter = new SearchFilter.IsNotEqualTo(TaskSchema.Status, TaskStatus.NotStarted);
FindItemsResults<Item> tasks = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Tasks, searchFilter, view);

      

However, on the last line, I get "ServiceResponseException: The specified value is not valid for the property." This strikes me as odd because the EWS documentation explicitly states that Task.Status should be one of the values ​​of the TaskStatus enumeration. Making a SearchFilter that compares to a string value doesn't throw an exception, but I haven't tried any of the other enumeration options to see if they give the same behavior.

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I can do this with ExtendedPropertyDefinition since Exchange 2007.

I am using PidLidTaskComplete Canonical Property .



A complete list of named properties available here .

//Create the extended property definition.
ExtendedPropertyDefinition taskCompleteProp = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(DefaultExtendedPropertySet.Task, 0x0000811C, MapiPropertyType.Boolean);
//Create the search filter.
SearchFilter.IsEqualTo filter = new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(taskCompleteProp, false);                    
//Get the tasks.
FindItemsResults<Item> tasks = service.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Tasks, filter, new ItemView(50));

      

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I believe you can also achieve this without using magic numbers:

var view = new ItemView(20);
var query = new SearchFilter.IsNotEqualTo(TaskSchema.IsComplete, true);
var results = exchangeService.FindItems(WellKnownFolderName.Tasks, query, view); 

      



This works with specific exchange version :)

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