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Summary: Easy to follow and very indepth
Review: I am very excited about the book. I have learned that Outlook can do so much more than is available in the basic canned version. I am not a programmer, nor am I very technical, and yet I am able to follow the information in the book. Indepth, but even amateurs can understand it!
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Summary: A good start for beginners and a reference for the seasoned
Review: If you want to start making applications with Outlook 2000 and have no previous knowledge of how to achieve this, this book is definitely a must. There is no explanation of how to use Outlook in this book, just pure development. And that's good! The author, Randy Byrne, takes you on a journey visiting every aspect of Outlook, from how to make macros with VBA, through customization of forms covering the Outlook Object Model in detail, creating COM Add-ins and customizing folder home pages. The last chapter also explains how to make Exchange agents. On the downside, although the books has many examples, still many of these, in my experience, don't apply when writing real-world applications. Although he mentions CDO - which you also will have to use sooner or later - it is not covered. The book also refers a bit much to the included cd which you need to install to follow some of the examples. But - a great buy for the beginning Outlook developer (and there so many topics covered in this book, so you won't be putting it away for long time - I frequently use it myself).
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Summary: Don't miss it!!
Review: The author Randy Byrne did not only revise the former book "Building Applications with Outlook 97/98". He created a new resource for all developers who want to build applications on top of Outlook 2000. The "Advanced Topics" cover COM Add-Ins, Folder Home Pages and many more new thrilling features of Outlook 2000. A "must to have" for all developers. I already have two copies on my bookcase, one at home and one at work. Keep on rocking Randy! </Siegfried>
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Summary: Good content. Questionable direction
Review: This book is well written but suffers the same problems as Rizzo's book. In the future all applications will take advantage of the Internet Mail protocols and not use proprietary hooks. Exchange and Outlook are moving in that direction already. If you are programming now make sure you think ahead into the future and invest in a book on how to program the Internet Mail protocols (eg. Adams, Rhoton, Jensen or any of the others.)
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Summary: Good content. Questionable direction
Review: This book is well written but suffers the same problems as Rizzo's book. In the future all applications will take advantage of the Internet Mail protocols and not use proprietary hooks. Exchange and Outlook are moving in that direction already. If you are programming now make sure you think ahead into the future and invest in a book on how to program the Internet Mail protocols (eg. Adams, Rhoton, Jensen or any of the others.)
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Summary: Great one time desk reference.
Review: This book shows a great number of possibilities for Outlook that a lot of client users did not know were possible. However, the book uses a bit more VB Script than I was looking for. I like Outlook 2000 from Wrox Publishing for an explanation on how to get past the VBScripting sections of the book. (Indirectly of course, you can't have everything spelled out for you.) With both of these books you should have all the reference you need for Outlook 2000.
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Summary: Great one time desk reference.
Review: This book shows a great number of possibilities for Outlook that a lot of client users did not know were possible. However, the book uses a bit more VB Script than I was looking for. I like Outlook 2000 from Wrox Publishing for an explanation on how to get past the VBScripting sections of the book. (Indirectly of course, you can't have everything spelled out for you.) With both of these books you should have all the reference you need for Outlook 2000.
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Summary: Almost Exhaustive
Review: This is a must have reference if you plan on doing any amount of Outlook programming. The book is edited by Sue Mosher (of MS Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours fame). Byrne (the author) does a good job of laying out the "world" starting with brief (30 pages) introduction of Outlook, some examples of what you can create, and the various design tools. Next comes a quick guide to building applications followed with a full blown example (which BTW works). Other sections cover building forms (controls, fields, properties, actions, folders, events, outlook and command bars, the assistant), VBA and VBScript (this BTW is where you will spend most of your time wearing the book out), and how to distribute (and maintain) applications. Byrne then goes on to advanced topics like COM Add-ins, Home Pages, Data Access, ActiveX, MTS, and Exchange Server scripting objects. To top it off a CD with complete code examples is included. The book literally paid for itself shortly after coming in my door. The only thing I wish it had examples of is Javascript for which there are nil, but this is Outlook afterall!
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Summary: Almost Exhaustive
Review: This is a must have reference if you plan on doing any amount of Outlook programming. The book is edited by Sue Mosher (of MS Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours fame). Byrne (the author) does a good job of laying out the "world" starting with brief (30 pages) introduction of Outlook, some examples of what you can create, and the various design tools. Next comes a quick guide to building applications followed with a full blown example (which BTW works). Other sections cover building forms (controls, fields, properties, actions, folders, events, outlook and command bars, the assistant), VBA and VBScript (this BTW is where you will spend most of your time wearing the book out), and how to distribute (and maintain) applications. Byrne then goes on to advanced topics like COM Add-ins, Home Pages, Data Access, ActiveX, MTS, and Exchange Server scripting objects. To top it off a CD with complete code examples is included. The book literally paid for itself shortly after coming in my door. The only thing I wish it had examples of is Javascript for which there are nil, but this is Outlook afterall!
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Summary: Great book for Programmers
Review: This is an intermediate to advanced book that keeps it worthwhile VB programmers that don't know the quirks of the Outlook Object Model. The examples and disk are very helpful.
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