Programming Collaborative Web Applications with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server (DV-MPS Programming) [Paperback]

Mindy Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 2000 | Series: DV-MPS Programming

Accelerate your development productivity with the expert insights and instructive code samples in this hands-on guide. Created with the full support of the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server development team, it delivers the detailed information you need to use the leading-edge Web Storage System technology in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server to build powerful applications for calendaring, contact management, workflow, and more. You’ll dig deep into the architecture and schema of the Web Storage System to see how it provides easy access to e-mail, documents, and Web pages, and you’ll explore its support for XML and other Internet standards.

This highly technical expert guide will help you:

• Understand Exchange 2000 Server development: Develop quickly with the Exchange 2000 Server and Web Storage System platform, master tools for building Web Storage System applications, organize data within the store, and get to that data from most clients without using any code.
• Learn how to access data: Define and access custom content classes and properties, use OLE DB and the Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) 2.5 Object Model to access the Web Storage System, use Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) for Exchange to develop messaging and calendaring applications, and interact with Microsoft Active Directory™ services.
• Extend your application: Go beyond the core features of Exchange 2000 Server to use Web Storage System events, design workflow applications, and develop for Microsoft Outlook® 2000.
• Build for the Web: Explore applications and tools for the Web, build Web Storage System forms that replace the standard Microsoft Outlook Web access forms, and create Web pages that use XML and XSL for added flexibility in your Web applications.
• Prepare for the enterprise: Build secure applications with the Windows 2000 security model, set up your own test environment, secure your middle-tier components by using the COM+ role-based security model, and understand key issues to watch out for when deploying a custom enterprise application.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 900 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (August 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735607729
• ISBN-13: 978-0735607729
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,804,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too basic to get anything accomplished, March 12, 2001

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John Briggs (Conyers, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Collaborative Web Applications with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server (DV-MPS Programming) (Paperback)

This book does an OK job of going over the different methods with which one may intereact programmatically with Exchange 2000. However, the quick overview gives the basis for technologies such as ADO, CDO, and XML (which is what Microsoft touts as the real "killer" use of Exchange 2000), but it doesn't go far enough to get any worthwhile programming for more advanced users. Nor does it give enough of a background to really bring beginner programmers up to speed.

What's more, the applications used for demonstration in this book seem too close to standard SQL Server based apps. It almost seems as the writer forgot that Microsoft already put out a great techonolgy for dealing with large pools of data. It's called a database. The whole thing reminded me of the beginner developer who just learned the basics of client-server (or ASP) programming with a small Access database and then tries to roll out a production level application to his company. You all know the guy who's done this, and you pull your teeth out trying to get the darn thing to work since it's so slow and sloppy.

Bottom line-Go to MSDN for real examples on programming with and for Exchange. You'll save the money and be less frustrated.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Barely Worthwhile, November 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Programming Collaborative Web Applications with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server (DV-MPS Programming) (Paperback)

This book is full of teasers. It starts to show you how to do something (which is the part that can be written by one of the VB wizards) then defuncts to "enter code here" where you're supposed to do something. It also spends a lot of time explaining CDO, which is great, but does not tell you how to implement your CDO application on the Exchange server.

However, there is a lot of helpful information on implementing Event Sinks on the Exchange server except for the final registration step where you can use ADO or the VBS provided with Exchange. It doesn't explain how to implement the ADO registration, and the VBS command line wants a URL to your target folder that starts as /backoffice/... where did that come from?!

The book also fails to take into account the developer who wants to modify incoming emails (not create new ones, not move them around) before they are saved to the folder, and doesn't even mention the fact that in order to access MAPI through recordsets you need to use the HEX values for the MAPI properties. Good luck finding a list of the HEX values!

In the end, this book is another rehash of Exchange 2000 documentation what was poorly written in the beginning, and lacking on crucial details that apparently nobody has devled into because they are just too difficult.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference to how WSS works, November 22, 2000

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Paul Robichaux - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Collaborative Web Applications with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server (DV-MPS Programming) (Paperback)

This book is a good, solid introduction to the Exchange 2000 Web Storage System. It describes the fundamentals of how to build collaborative applications, but it's clearly intended more for the back-end programmer. Those who complain "oh, the code is in VB" are missing the point; it's trivial to adapt the provided code to run as ASP, and in most cases where changes are necessary the author points out how to make them.