Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Get the comprehensive reference for extending Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Many knowledge workers rely on Office Outlook to help them structure their days managing e-mail messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks. Now, with new extensibility features in Office Outlook 2007, developers can create add-ins that allow data from other tools and applications to be hosted within Outlook 2007. By gathering more information together in one application and one so familiar users can experience increased levels of productivity. This complete guide shows developers how to exploit the new features in Office Outlook 2007 to extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop. Includes code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C#®.

Delivers authoritative platform guidance to inform developers when add-in and form customizations are appropriate

Provides add-in templates and extensive code samples in Visual Basic and Visual C# (with additional information about Visual C++)

Features end-to-end sample applications

Randy Byrne is a senior program manager for Outlook extensibility at Microsoft Corporation. He is the author of Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002, and has written several articles about the Outlook object model on MSDN.

Ryan Gregg helps develop new features for Outlook, including Sidebar gadgets, as a program manager at Microsoft. He is a contributor to MSDN and MSDN magazine, and blogs about Outlook programmability.