Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services [Paperback]

David Sterling (Author), Michael Mainer (Author), Ben Spain (Author), Mark Taylor (Author), Huw Upshall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0735623929 | ISBN-13: 978-0735623927 | Edition: 1

Dive deep into the architecture of Exchange Web Services—and master the intricacies for accessing data with the new, unifying API. Exchange Web Services offers new functionality, replacing old, disparate APIs. Written by members of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Web Services product teams at Microsoft, this practical guide introduces developers to Exchange Web Services. It includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the architecture and key features, including messaging, folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and autodiscovery. Developers who are moving applications using previous APIs to Exchange Web Services will learn how to determine the correct Web services constructs—and the implications of those decisions. In addition, developers writing new software will develop a well-grounded understanding of the methods available and how to structure interaction with Exchange Server 2007 for maximum benefit and performance. This book assumes only knowledge of how to write HTTP requests, but it provides proxy examples in Microsoft Visual C#®.

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Key Book Benefits:

Features comprehensive information about Exchange Web Services features, including messaging, folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and autodiscovery

Provides proxy examples in Visual C#, but assumes only knowledge of how to write HTTP requests

About the Author

David Sterling is a software developer with 11 years’ experience. Before joining the Microsoft Exchange Web Services team, he developed software for various industries including electronic voting, CRM, and pharmaceuticals.

Michael Mainer is a programming writer for the Exchange Server team at Microsoft where he has developed technical documentation for five years.

Benjamin Spain is a software tester on the Exchange Client Access team. A seven-year veteran at Microsoft, he has worked on third-party messaging protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, DAV, and NNTP.

Mark Taylor has nine years’ experience as a software development engineer and has spent the past five years working on the Exchange Server team at Microsoft.

Huw Upshall has nearly 10 years’ experience working on the Exchange Server team at Microsoft and is currently a test architect for Exchange Client Access Server.

Product Details

• Paperback: 928 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (December 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735623929
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623927
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #947,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book on Exchange Web Services, May 19, 2008

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Brandon Wolslegel (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services (Paperback)

This book is not only powerful, but is a must have for anyone developing against Exchange Server either now or in the future. The explanations are both thorough as well as detailed and make it easy for those who have never written web services to get started. The examples are fantastic and complete and in no time at all I was able to get started. I would recommend this book to anyone, new programmers or experienced. Fantastic book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Only Game in Town--A Must Have, June 30, 2009

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P. J. Neary (New City, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I've been using this book for over a year now to develop a production application with EWS. This is the only book out there on this topic that I am aware of, so you have little choice in the matter. Fortunately, the book is well-structured, well-written, and pretty comprehensive. And it is "straight from the horse's mouth," so to speak. The samples are very helpful. Per a previous reviewer's complaint, they are all console-mode apps just to simplify their build and use. If you want to make a web service, you'll have to adapt and extend. I was particularly grateful that for push notifications, the authors actually went to the trouble to write out an embedded HTTP listener instead of presuming you would be content to run under IIS.

Be aware that MS has a new, higher-level API in beta now, called the EWS Managed API. This newer API eliminates a lot of the drudge coding in the SOAP proxy API described in this book. I don't think there has been an update to this book for the new API, but I would hope Mr. Sterling et al are planning one, or even better, a new book on this topic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Resource For Exchange Development, June 16, 2008

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JTH "JTH" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services (Paperback)

This book is the best resource for Exchange development, written by the developers who work on Exchange Web Services (EWS) this book is a must-have for any developer that is thinking about writing applications against Exchange. I can't recommend it enough for the examples, in depth explanations, and entertaining writing :)