Professional Outlook 2000 Programming : With VBA, Office and CDO [Paperback]

Dwayne Gifford (Author), Chris Burnham (Author), Dwayne Gifford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

Outlook is the primary mailing application for millions of users. Using VBA and VB, you can create custom email applications to suit your coorporate or individual needs. As the world embraces email, there is more and more unstructured data moving around. The power of Outlook to run custom applications which manipulate and manage this data is just being realized. This book provides a deep exploration into what's possible with Outlook 2000.

Editorial Reviews

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Developers can use Microsoft Outlook 2000 to write powerful, customized mail-enabled and collaborative applications. Professional Outlook 2000 Programming surveys the available options on this platform, employing a hands-on guide to writing custom modules using a variety of APIs and techniques. Featuring a simple presentation style, this book compiles some essential material. The text will be understandable to anyone with a little VB/VBA programming experience.

By exposing COM objects to VBScript or VBA, developers can create custom Outlook forms and applications. Naturally, the text shows off this programming approach with a full tour of how to get up and running with the development environment, how to create custom forms, and then how to deploy (or publish) them. In addition to providing clear examples, the book points out gotchas (and even known bugs) you'll encounter.

The book doesn't stop there. You'll find out how to make Outlook work with other Microsoft Office tools (like Word, Excel, and Access) using OLE Automation and data sharing with ADO. Other sections demonstrate the use of Collaborative Data Objects (CDO), a simple set of COM objects for enabling e-mail within custom applications.

The best part of Professional Outlook 2000 Programming has to be its meaty case studies--which include an asset-tracking application that uses e-mail forms to track computer hardware for an organization, plus a nicely functional billing application. A third case study--for a customer-service application--reveals how to combine CDO with basic Active Server Pages (ASPs). After reading this book, Outlook programmers will be able to take their skills to the Web. Microsoft has added new options to Outlook 2000, and this text will help you keep up with current listings of all classes and methods. --Richard Dragan

Topics Covered:

Basic development in Outlook VBScript vs. VBA The Outlook Object Model Outlook 2000 Forms Standard and custom forms Debugging and publishing forms Outlook macros Using class modules within Outlook Collaborative Data Objects (CDO)

Outlook 2000 OLE Automation with Word, Excel, Access, and Visual Basic Building custom COM add-ins with VB External data in Outlook with Word Excel, Access, and ADO/SQL Server Sample applications for asset tracking, billing, and customer service Using Outlook within ASP Web pages Reference for Outlook and CDO objects and methods

From the Publisher

Introducing the Outlook 2000 object model, this book shows how to hook into the object model using VB or VBA. Once the basics are covered, more advanced topics are covered, such as automation, data-access and manipulation, using COM add-ins and integration with other applications. The book is made complete with the inclusion of comprehensive 'real-world' case studies that demonstrate the techniques learned throughout the book. There is also a complete reference to the Outlook 2000 Object Model.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 651 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861003315
• ISBN-13: 978-1861003317
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,629,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for Outlook 2000 development, February 11, 2000

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Siegfried Weber - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Outlook 2000 Programming : With VBA, Office and CDO (Paperback)

I just recieved a copy of this title a couple of days ago and I thought I drop some lines here. It's a great book for those who want to learn more about Outlook forms, COM-addins, Outlook 2000 VBA and also how to access outside data within Outlook forms. It also covers useful hints that can't be accomplished with Outlook directly using other technologies like CDO etc.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For advanced users only, April 21, 2003

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Andrew Bono "whirling dervish" (Watsonville, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional Outlook 2000 Programming : With VBA, Office and CDO (Paperback)

They do a terrible job of getting novice users started. In the first chapter they lecture about knowing objects inside and out, but really don't support any means of doing that short of reading the Appendices and memorizing them without any sense of context. Basically, you already need to have a VERY strong background in VBA / VBScripting for Windows applications. If you are not a HIGHLY proficient programmer/scripter who is merely looking to turn his/her focus onto how to apply those skills to this specific (and peculiar) environment, FIND ANOTHER BOOK.