Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

I've been using this book for over a year now to develop a production application with EWS. This is the only book out there on this topic that I am aware of, so you have little choice in the matter. Fortunately, the book is well-structured, well-written, and pretty comprehensive. And it is "straight from the horse's mouth," so to speak. The samples are very helpful. Per a previous reviewer's complaint, they are all console-mode apps just to simplify their build and use. If you want to make a web service, you'll have to adapt and extend. I was particularly grateful that for push notifications, the authors actually went to the trouble to write out an embedded HTTP listener instead of presuming you would be content to run under IIS. Be aware that MS has a new, higher-level API in beta now, called the EWS Managed API. This newer API eliminates a lot of the drudge coding in the SOAP proxy API described in this book. I don't think there has been an update to this book for the new API, but I would hope Mr. Sterling et al are planning one, or even better, a new book on this topic.

This book is the best resource for Exchange development, written by the developers who work on Exchange Web Services (EWS) this book is a must-have for any developer that is thinking about writing applications against Exchange. I can't recommend it enough for the examples, in depth explanations, and entertaining writing :)

This book is a must for all developers that want to benefit from the new Exchange Web Services protocols. MSDN documentation is not that great, but the book explains the internals, data types and procedures, giving clear examples. You can't go wrong with it, especially when developing using .NET

This book is not only powerful, but is a must have for anyone developing against Exchange Server either now or in the future. The explanations are both thorough as well as detailed and make it easy for those who have never written web services to get started. The examples are fantastic and complete and in no time at all I was able to get started. I would recommend this book to anyone, new programmers or experienced. Fantastic book!