Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference [Paperback]

Dwayne Gifford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1999 | Series: Programmer's Reference

Outlook 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. At present, most people use Outlook for sending and receiving emails and little else, However, Outlook 2000 is set to become a very powerful organizational tool. Outlook 2000 now hosts VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and hence there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation. Using VBA, the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is neat because it allows you to automate a lot of mailing and calendaring tasks that would otherwise take up a lot of time - one press of a button could take names from an Access database, write a letter in Word addressed to each individual, and then email all the letters at once.

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With its extensive customization facilities and its ability to serve as a skeleton for fairly elaborate custom groupware, Outlook 2000 receives a good deal of attention from developers. Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference explains--in both tutorial and reference form--how Outlook can be manipulated to best suit you or your company's needs.

The majority of this book employs a tutorial to examine the structure of the Outlook object model. The book approaches one object at a time--presenting the properties, methods, and events of each--along with some commentary and illustrative code. It also includes an introduction to the general structure and syntax of Outlook VBA programs, plus a couple of complete applications that call on several aspects of the VBA object model.

Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference concludes with a compact reference to the Outlook 2000 object model. It's complete and provides useful descriptions of each property, method, and event, but it suffers from the same formatting problem as the other books in this series. When an object description extends beyond one page, it's not possible to tell which object is being documented without flipping back to the beginning of the entry. --David Wall

From the Publisher

This book presents a full reference to the Outlook object model - which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Outlook program. There will be a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book will document aspects of programming Outlook through that object model.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 653 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 186100253X
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002532
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,179,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WROX has another winner!!!, September 17, 2000

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P. R. Mow (Honolulu, Hawaii USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

This book was awesome! I used it to help me write VBA code to connect our SQL 7 database to the Outlook Calendar. As staff members update the SQL database, the information will show in individual calendars as soon as Outlook is started up!!! I also plan to use it generate Task Lists from the database. There aren't many books written on Outlook VBA so if you are looking for some answers start here first!!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must-have" desk reference for Outlook 2000 developers, September 6, 1999

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This review is from: Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

Before this book was available, I used the Outlook Help files as a reference for objects, methods, properties and events. Anyone who has used the Outlook Help files knows how prone they are to errors, so this book was a welcome edition to my collection. I use it so regularly, that the spine on my copy has already has a crease.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still a must have title for VBA programmers, March 29, 2008

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This review is from: Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

Since there doesn't seem to be any plan to update this book for XP, 2003 or 2007, this is still the definitive tome on programming with Outlook VBA. An excellent desktop reference, although it reads more like a dictionary than a true book, but for a straight up list of Outlook constants, it cannot be beat. If you program in Office VBA you must own this book.