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Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

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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!

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.

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 :)

This book is a must for all developers that want to benefit from the new Exchange Web Services protocols. MSDN documentation is not that great, but the book explains the internals, data types and procedures, giving clear examples. You can't go wrong with it, especially when developing using .NET

I committed myself to a project that makes use of the EWS API without fully realizing how complex this API is. I needed to get at Exchange from non-Microsoft platforms and found this extremely hard to do from the on-line documentation and the SDK, so I bought this book.

The book does a brilliant job of not only covering development from a Microsoft point of view, but also from the point of view of someone using Web Services on another platform. It provides detailed information about each part of the API and helps you get up and running with Visual Studio pretty quickly.

It you are going to do any serious work with the Exchange WebServices API, this book is a must-have.

Now here's hoping they come out with a 2010 update...

This book does a good job at explaining a complex subject. My big complaint is that the way it handles certain things were easy on the author, not the reader. For example, why would I create an application that acts as a Web service, but have it running as a console application? Wouldn't I much rather have it running as a proper Web service?