Developing Applications Using Outlook 2000, CDO, Exchange, and Visual Basic

If you're subject to program applications in collaboration with the Exchange 5.5 platform, and are a bit familiar with VBScript and Outlook, this book is a must. Simply because it provides loads of useful examples which will get you started at once.This book does not dwell into the each technology around Exchange 5.5 and Outlook 2000, but instead it gives you an overview AND lots of examples of how you can make the most of your Outlook 2000 clients and Exchange 5.5 servers.It tells you briefly about the Outlook 2000 object model, COM add-ins, CDO 1.21, Exchange agents and other relevant topics used in conjunction with the Exchange-server technology.I have read a lot of these books, but this is simply the best in its area. The examples are not taken from any help-files, but - it seems - from real world applications (you can see that in the way they differ from the help-files).

It is not very often that I get wildly excited about computer books, but, well, this one did it! Piemonte and Jamison have compiled a list of tips and techniqes that really help. For example: the book paid for itself immediately by helping me overcome calling a word document directly from Outlook (try to find a readable white paper on that one!). The only reason that I gave it four out of five stars is that some of examples are buggy (I went out to the web site and downloaded the code...which did work and all was well). The code snippets are plentiful and complete. I have a multitude of Outlook and Exchange books and have done several projects to date using both Outlook 98/Outlook 2000 and Exchange Server 5.x. This is now seriously dog eared. If you are doing are going to be doing Outlook programming of any sort get a copy for your library, it is more than worth the purchase price.

An excellent resource for VB messaging developers. Tons of example codes, tons of references on CDO object, well coded, and pinpoint the essentials - nicely done. This book is not exactly cheap, but than again, I doubt that you can find all the materials covered in this book elsewhere at this moment.

I've been using this book for Outlook/Exchange/CDO application development since October. I've found it to be the most complete resource for aiding in the development process.It's served well as both a tutorial and a reference. The table listings provide a convenient way to look up properties and methods, especially for Outlook forms (where there's no IntelliSense).

This book has really great information for writing Outlook and CDO apps - things like which properties and methods are available in which version of Outlook, how conversation threads work, why you have to use CDO sometimes, etc.The tips alone saved me a ton of work. I recommend it highly.