The Name property indicates the name of the property. The Name parameter of the Add property indicates the name of the property to be added. The Value property specifies the value of the property. The GuessType property guesses the property's type, from its value. The Type property specifies the type of the property from the Value parameter of the property. The Parameters property specifies the property's Parameters collection.

The following is a simple example of an iCalendar format:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:Company Holiday Party
DATE:20010101
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

The SUMMARY and DATE are the name of the properties of the VCALENDAR object.