Description:
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 shows you how to customize the Microsoft e-mail and scheduling application. The book provides an abundance of tutorial and reference material with which to experiment to create your own projects. In addition to providing technical information, the book plants the seeds of ideas in reader's minds for improving their own enterprises with Outlook. Byrne gives an introduction to Outlook's design tools and a straightforward walkthrough of essential Outlook development techniques (creating a comment-tracking tool for beta software and a discussion forum in the process). He also describes the elements needed for producing more elaborate applications--including forms, controls, events, and actions. He pays particular attention to Outlook's relationship to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VBScript before describing how to extend Outlook with Visual Basic Component Object Model (COM) components in environments that include Exchange Server. Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 includes plenty of code and fortifies it with informative commentary, supplementary data and--most valuable--ideas about how you can put Outlook's customization capabilities to use in real life. A typical chapter includes instructions for achieving specific programming goals, along with reference material. --David Wall
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