Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 [With *]

by Microsoft Corporation and Randy Byrne

Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 shows you how to customize the Microsoft e-mail and scheduling application. The book provides an abundance of tutorial and reference material with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735605815
• ISBN13: 9780735605817
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book for Programmers

This is an intermediate to advanced book that keeps it worthwhile VB programmers that don't know the quirks of the Outlook Object Model. The examples and disk are very helpful.

Almost Exhaustive

This is a must have reference if you plan on doing any amount of Outlook programming. The book is edited by Sue Mosher (of MS Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours fame). Byrne (the author) does a good job of laying out the "world" starting with brief (30 pages) introduction of Outlook, some examples of what you can create, and the various design tools. Next comes a quick guide to building applications followed with a full blown example (which BTW works). Other sections cover building forms (controls, fields, properties, actions, folders, events, outlook and command bars, the assistant), VBA and VBScript (this BTW is where you will spend most of your time wearing the book out), and how to distribute (and maintain) applications. Byrne then goes on to advanced topics like COM Add-ins, Home Pages, Data Access, ActiveX, MTS, and Exchange Server scripting objects. To top it off a CD with complete code examples is included. The book literally paid for itself shortly after coming in my door. The only thing I wish it had examples of is Javascript for which there are nil, but this is Outlook afterall!

Great one time desk reference.

This book shows a great number of possibilities for Outlook that a lot of client users did not know were possible. However, the book uses a bit more VB Script than I was looking for. I like Outlook 2000 from Wrox Publishing for an explanation on how to get past the VBScripting sections of the book. (Indirectly of course, you can't have everything spelled out for you.) With both of these books you should have all the reference you need for Outlook 2000.

Required for Outlook development - won't sit on the shelf

This is not the typical cut-paste, how-to technical book that is so typical these days. Byrne's focus is on educating the reader with a full understanding of not just what to do, but how and why.This is definitely not for the casual reader or someone not serious about the subject. Outlook development is more than just "spinning some code," it requires an understanding of a multitude of technologies on both the client and server. Byrne found a good balance between the Outlook and Exchange sides. He has also brought along the depth and attention to detail that have made him one of the, if not the, most popular MVPs out there. After reading so many books (many later donated to bird cage duty) that claimed to teach a subject, this was a refreshing read. Kudos

Don't miss it!!

The author Randy Byrne did not only revise the former book "Building Applications with Outlook 97/98".He created a new resource for all developers who want to build applications on top of Outlook 2000. The "Advanced Topics" cover COM Add-Ins, Folder Home Pages and many more new thrilling features of Outlook 2000.A "must to have" for all developers. I already have two copies on my bookcase, one at home and one at work.Keep on rocking Randy!