Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 [Paperback]

Randy Byrne (Author), Ryan Gregg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0735622493 | ISBN-13: 978-0735622494 | Edition: Third Edition

Get the comprehensive reference for extending Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Many knowledge workers rely on Office Outlook to help them structure their days managing e-mail messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks. Now, with new extensibility features in Office Outlook 2007, developers can create add-ins that allow data from other tools and applications to be hosted within Outlook 2007. By gathering more information together in one application and one so familiar users can experience increased levels of productivity. This complete guide shows developers how to exploit the new features in Office Outlook 2007 to extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop. Includes code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C#®.

Delivers authoritative platform guidance to inform developers when add-in and form customizations are appropriate

Provides add-in templates and extensive code samples in Visual Basic and Visual C# (with additional information about Visual C++)

Features end-to-end sample applications

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Key Book Benefits:

-Delivers authoritative platform guidance to inform developers when add-in and form customizations are appropriate -Provides add-in templates and extensive code samples in Visual Basic and Visual C# (with additional information about Visual C++) -Features end-to-end sample applications

About the Author

Randy Byrne is a senior program manager for Outlook extensibility at Microsoft Corporation. He is the author of Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002, and has written several articles about the Outlook object model on MSDN.

Ryan Gregg helps develop new features for Outlook, including Sidebar gadgets, as a program manager at Microsoft. He is a contributor to MSDN and MSDN magazine, and blogs about Outlook programmability.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; Third Edition edition (March 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735622493
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622494
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Outlook
  • #48 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Scheduling & E-mail

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, March 29, 2007

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Matthew Epstein (Clearwater, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (Paperback)

Anyone who develops on Outlook should buy this book -- even if you don't have Outlook 2007. The beginning chapters review best practices and underlying architecture that every Outlook developer should understand, regardless of which version of Outlook you're using. Plus, you'll see all the great new stuff in 2007 which you'll want, so you can convince your stakeholders to upgrade. Later chapters drill into the technical details with surprising depth so you can find out what you need with only minimal trips to MSDN. Code samples are generous, albeit limited to only managed code... but that's understandable given the obvious advantages to using it for rapid application development.

The difference between this book and previous attempts to document the Outlook development experience is like night and day. Kudos to Randy and Ryan for understanding what we face and doing an admirable job at enlightening us.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Programming Office Outlook 2007 review, January 28, 2008

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Daff Niles "Daff" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (Paperback)

This book provides a good basic understanding of the process for programming Office Outlook 2007 plug-ins. It has a good spread of information about all the underlying office/outlook types and objects, although only briefly touches on their use. Demo's of using these objects are provided, covering typical basic tasks, but more advanced functionality is not really shown, though alluded to. The book makes extensive use (for C# programming) of a Shim Wizard which provides the interlinking functionality between the managed code and the COM interfaces. Unfortunately this wizard has been extensively modified since the book was published, and some of the instructions provided are out of date, resulting in the plug-in not functioning correctly. As very little information is provided with the book (and with the Wizard) working through these issues takes some time. The book's website does not include any errata to indicate the correct use of the modified wizard, though the site does contain links to the latest version of the wizard. Other than that the book is well worth it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and good C# examples, April 28, 2008

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BV Nguyen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (Paperback)

I found this book quite helpful since I am familiar with C# yet new to Programming with Outlook. My current assignment is to use VS 2008/C# to integrate with Outlook 2003 and 2007, I could apply some of the examples to my needs. Since I need to use VS 2008, then some of the steps are different and stick with events that would work for both Outlook versions, however, I have managed to figure them out.