Programming Microsoft® Outlook® and Microsoft Exchange 2003 (Pro-Developer) - Hardcover

Rizzo, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735614644 ISBN 13: 9780735614642

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2003

Synopsis

Create rich, collaborative messaging solutions for your business—and extend them to corporate Web portals—with code and instruction straight from the source. This classic reference—now in its third edition—shows how to exploit the enhanced collaborative capabilities in Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003, including knowledge management, information publishing, and search capabilities. Author Thomas Rizzo, a veteran of the Microsoft Exchange and Outlook teams, shares a wealth of practical, how-to examples for crafting collaborative business applications. To extend your learning, the companion Web site features 500+ pages of bonus material on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, as well as the book’s entire cache of code—downloadable for use in your own applications.

Discover how to:

• Manipulate Outlook objects using the Outlook Object Model
• Write your own COM add-ins to extend Outlook functionality
• Create smart tags and smart documents to link actions to content, customize the UI, and track interactions
• Use Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) to develop Web-based messaging and collaboration applications
• Help protect your network applications with Outlook Security Update and Microsoft ASP.NET authentication
• Increase your control over Exchange Server with the CDO library and ADSI
• Better manage the Exchange infrastructure via CDO for Exchange Management (EMO) and Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Develop real-time collaboration solutions using the Exchange Conferencing Server and Instant Messaging

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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: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0735614644
• ISBN 13: 9780735614642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1120