Customer Reviews

ADSI CDO Programming with ASP

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Freidlitz and Mondor are obviously experts in the field and their experience and knowledge are impressive. It's hard not to find the book valuable if you are at all involved in Exchange/Outlook projects. The book is, however, almost fatally marred by its atrocious syntax and grammar problems; and this makes learning from the text an overly onerous task. The publishing house obviously did not want to invest in a professional editor (astonishing given the price of the book!). Be prepared for an inordinately steep learning curve, due to these very same syntax problems. You almost have to be as knowledgeable as the authors to gain from their presentation! I cannot recommend the work as wholeheartedly as I can Thomas Rizzo's, "Programming Outlook and Exchange".

I agree with the first reviewer-the presentation is just too poor. For the price I expected more in-depth coverage. It feels like the book was thrown together over a weekend.

Even though this book is written for advanced users, I found it would be useful tool and easy enough to follow for any LAN/WAN administrator looking to control their entire network.

Could use this book somewhat as a reference but this is NOT the book to get if you are just starting out. Not enough clear examples nor does it really have practical application examples. More of 'this is the line of code to do this'. Not really organized and seems like they 'threw' this together and didn't really care if the reader was learning anything. Kinda like that college prof everyone had that muttered to himself what was in his head but didn't notice to see if anyone was learning or listening.

I really have to say that this is the best book I've read on ADSI and CDO. The way the authors combine the two technologies to accomplish what needs to be done makes you stop and think. This is a really good book on programming ADSI and/or CDO.

Good as a second reference targeted at those familiar with CDO and ADSI concepts. This is not for starting out with CDO or ADSI programming. Presentation assumes you have a programming background, or that you are quick on the uptake....i.e. smart.. smart.. smart. It helped me to solve a nagging ADSI problem with programmatically creating/implementing certain fields for Exchange Mailboxes and Custom recipients... The authors relate thier actual experiences working with Microsoft object models..Thanks guys for sharing your knowledge..