It was more difficult than we expected. Our fingers are exhausted, and we won't even talk about the truly frightening quantities of Mt. Dew that were consumed. The end result: a shiny pile of ones and zeros we think you'll want to meet.

Previously I hinted that Omar, David and myself have been collaborating on a nicely abstracted managed assembly that provides an object model for importing data into OneNote. But as of today, it lives!

So what does it do, you ask? Enough talk:

using Microsoft.Office.OneNote; 
namespace Example 
{ 
   class TrivialImport 
   { 
      public static void Main() 
      { 
         // Create a new page in the section "General", with the  
         // title "Import Example".  
         Page p = new Page("General.one", "Import Example"); 
 
         // Create a new Outline, and add some content to it: 
         OutlineObject outline = new OutlineObject(); 
         outline.AddContent(new HtmlContent("Hello <i>world</i>!")); 

 
         // Add the outline to our page: 
         p.AddObject(outline); 

 
         // Commit the changes to OneNote, and set the actively viewed page: 
         p.Commit(); 
         p.NavigateTo(); 
      } 
   } 
}

Try it out for yourself: the assembly, source code, documentation, and class diagrams are all available for download here.

(Note that this is a work in progress, and as a result you may encounter the occasional bug or two. So if it eats your homework, erases all of your Tivo'd episodes of Friends, or breaks up with your girlfriend -- you have been warned. Of course, if this does occur, let me know.)

Go wild; but be careful: once you start importing, it's hard to stop.

[3/22/06: Updated URLs to point to new site.]