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Summary: Required reading for anyone serious about Outlook forms
Review: Although this title is introductory in nature, it alerts you to how powerful Outlook really is. The book does a good job of teching the newbie developer/programmer the basics of the trade as far as Outlook is concerned, while showing the experienced developer who has no Outlook experience what Outlook is capable of. It also makes an excellent introduction to software development in general b/c you end up with bonafide programs that are easy to modify and that you can actually use right away. Looking forward to more Outlook books by Mrs. Mosher.
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Summary: Beginner to Expert in 24 Simple Lessons
Review: As a beginner to VBA and Programming itself I needed a book that started at a basic level, yet ended with the power I needed to write my tools. Sue's book fit this perfectly. The book is very easy to follow and understand, each lesson building on what you learned in the last.I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to harness the full power of Outlook. I had know idea you could do so much with a couple of lines of code. This book has already saved me hundreds of hours of work that I used to do by hand that is now completed in a matter of seconds by VBA code.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I am a beginner in VBScript and VBA. This book was full of information and I learned alot from it. I suggest any and everyone get a copy of this book.
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Summary: A Good Place To Start
Review: I found this book to be a good place to begin learning Outlook Programming. Mosher does a great job narrating a pretty dry subject. I found the code snippets to be correct and applicable (I still use some of the examples in my production code). If you want to learn about Outlook programming (and why you should program Outlook) this is the book to take you to the intermediate level. Subjects covered: form design, the VBA environment, coding basics, special Outlook techniques (Object Models, Custom Actions, Stores and Folders, Items, Events, Menus, Toolbars), debugging (a biggy), ActiveX and other controls, reports (some are pretty limited, but not the book's fault), and the author even touches on Exchange Server and Data Collaboration. A pretty good index ties things up nicely. This is not an advanced book or a reference, but a tutorial. A very good buy. No CD, but I found the code examples to be no big deal to type in...after all this is Outlook we are talking about!
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Summary: A Good Place To Start
Review: I found this book to be a good place to begin learning Outlook Programming. Mosher does a great job narrating a pretty dry subject. I found the code snippets to be correct and applicable (I still use some of the examples in my production code). If you want to learn about Outlook programming (and why you should program Outlook) this is the book to take you to the intermediate level. Subjects covered: form design, the VBA environment, coding basics, special Outlook techniques (Object Models, Custom Actions, Stores and Folders, Items, Events, Menus, Toolbars), debugging (a biggy), ActiveX and other controls, reports (some are pretty limited, but not the book's fault), and the author even touches on Exchange Server and Data Collaboration. A pretty good index ties things up nicely. This is not an advanced book or a reference, but a tutorial. A very good buy. No CD, but I found the code examples to be no big deal to type in...after all this is Outlook we are talking about!
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Summary: Need That book
Review: I need to buy Sams Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours Book, Where can I have it as soon as possible? Please let me know
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Summary: Useless if you're in a hurry
Review: I purchased this book after reading all the great reviews for it at this site, but found that it has been useless for my purposes. I need a few minor customizations to my Outlook client, and I don't have much time to spend. I am a fairly experienced hack, and usually pick up new programming concepts quickly, but I have found it impossible to extract key concepts from this book. Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 hours - no more, no less - and god help you if your project doesn't closely resemble one of the samples provided.
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Summary: Not very informative
Review: I was terribly disppointed in this book. I have a project to design a software for taking attendance and calculating accumulated vacation days and sick days for my company. After reading this book, I still have no idea how to do this project. I expected to see a brief description of different objects and how to use them, but this did not happen.This book is really meant for people who use Outlook casually. If you want to develop softwares using Outlook, this book is not for you.
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Summary: A must book for Outlook Programmers
Review: Sue Mosher has done an excellent job in dealing with both the basics of Outlook form design and tackling the more sophisticated aspects of Outlook programming using VBScript, VBA and ActiveX Controls. For those, like myself, who didn't know much about VBScript(almost an essential tool for Outlook programming), this book is perfect as it takes you through the basics and uses practical examples for clarification. If there is one book you want to buy on Microsoft Outlook programming, look no further. Shiraz Shariff
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Summary: It's all there (almost) ... just a little hard to find
Review: Sue Mosher is a very readable writer and there's no doubt she knows her stuff inside and out. Most books in the Teach Yourself in 24 Hours series are beginner-intermediate introductions to the subject. That's true with Mosher's book - however, she manages to cover an impressive breadth of material in 24 small lessons. The problem is finding the material. This book could use a revamp in structure (I hope the publishers of the new 2002 edition are listening). There IS a good table of contents and a satisfactory index, but it's still devilishly hard to find stuff in this book, and to see how it fits together. The VBA/VBScript distinction is probably the biggest problem. The beginning Outlook programmer, even a programmer with experience in other languages, will not easily discern why Mosher talks about VBScript on one page and VBA on another. VBScript and VBA are distinct tools, with very different applications in Outlook programming. Mosher makes that point, but not clearly enough, and the struture of the book obscures the point. In the real world, "Outlook Form Design" could refer to VBScript or VBA programming. In Mosher's book, it refers only to the former - which is confusing and misleading. Instead of "Outlook Form Design", the first section should be titled "Customizing Default Outlook Forms with VBScript". The second section could be called "Designing New Outlook Forms with VBA" (although "Design with VBA", the current title, isn't bad). There are lots of practical examples in the book. As said above, the breadth of this book is amazing (even if depth suffers a little as a result), and there are pertinent examples for just about every topic covered. In order to facilitate a more unified structure, it might be helpful to give examples that are related to each other and form a single, functional "Outlook Application". That may help the reader understand how seemingly unrelated material fits together, and would certainly better point up the distinction between VBScript and VBA. This Teach Yourself Book (like others in the series) has a few typos - nothing too serious... Great book - just needs some reorganizing.
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