Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, Second Edition (DV-MPS Programming) - Softcover

Microsoft Press; Rizzo, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735610193 ISBN 13: 9780735610194

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2000

Synopsis

Developers learn how to build and run core business services across the enterprise using Microsoft's powerful messaging and collaboration tools -- Outlook 2000, Exchange Server 5.5, and Exchange 2000 Server. Now in its second edition, this best-selling book has been updated and revised to dig even deeper into Outlook 2000 capabilities and explains how to start building applications for Exchange 2000 -- including working with new Web Store technology. The book offers expert guidance, examples, and a CD packed with code and other resources, including the Digital Dashboard Starter Kit.

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Review

Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange is a thorough guide for building collaborative applications such as threaded discussions and electronic business documents. Early on, the book describes four types of collaborative applications: messaging, tracking, workflow, and real-time applications. Author Thomas Rizzo shows the strengths of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server for collaboration, including the many built-in security and administration features.

Rizzo also covers Outlook 98 development, explaining how to customize folders, fields, and views (including rules and filtered replication of messages). He then shows how to create Outlook forms, with instruction on how to use components and add VBScript event handlers. An account tracking application demonstrates all the basics on this topic.

The second half of the book is strong on building Web-based collaborative applications and covers Web tools such as Outlook Today and the Outlook HTML Form Converter. Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) objects are fully explained, showing how they can be built with ASPs and viewed in a browser. Rizzo provides excellent samples for a help desk, a calendar of events, and an intranet news application, and carefully lists the exact versions of various Microsoft tools required to run each example successfully.

The book closes with material on the Event Scripting Agent and Exchange Server Routing Objects, which provide fault-tolerant message delivery. --Richard Dragan

About the Author

Thomas Rizzo is a product manager with the Microsoft Exchange group, where he focuses on building customer confidence and productivity with the platform. He’s also served as a system engineer on the Exchange team and wrote the first two editions of this popular book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735610193
• ISBN 13: 9780735610194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1024