title: Does SharePoint 2010 support the iCalendar format?
body: <p>Sounds like a very silly question, but I tried, and it isn't too easy to find a simple answer to this simple question on google.</p>
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  <p>The longer story:</p>
  <p>Before I started my search, I just took it for granted that SharePoint provides a web service to access a calendar using iCal.</p>
  <p>But after having <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=sharepoint%20ical%20support" rel="nofollow noreferrer">searched</a> I fear I was totally wrong. I just don't want to believe it. Not even in SharePoint 2010? Twelve years after the standard was <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2445" rel="nofollow noreferrer">published</a>?!</p>
  <p>I found a <a href="http://aspnetguru.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/understanding-the-sharepoint-calendar-and-how-to-export-it-to-ical-format/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog</a> about implementing an iCal export, but to be honest, implementing it clean, complete and bugfree, and ideally even two-way is just too much of an effort to start before asking here.</p>
  <p>I also found a <a href="http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/mashpoint/archive/2009/01/26/sharepoint-support-for-icalendar-and-vcard-using-the-mashpoint-rest-api.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">commercial product called MashPoint</a>, but it's overkill.</p>
  <p>The tiny remaining spark of hope makes me put this as a SO question and hope that after the coffee, the whole world looks different all of a sudden.</p>