Difference between iCalendar (.ics) and the vCalendar (.vcs)

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Nakul Chaudhary picture Nakul Chaudhary · Aug 21, 2009 · Viewed 111.7k times · Source

I want to send booking information through mail in an attachment to add in MS Outlook. Which format is better? Especially for MS Outlook 2003?

Answer

RaYell picture RaYell · Aug 21, 2009

iCalendar was based on a vCalendar and Outlook 2007 handles both formats well so it doesn't really matters which one you choose.

I'm not sure if this stands for Outlook 2003. I guess you should give it a try.

Outlook's default calendar format is iCalendar (*.ics)

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