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Programming Applications for Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 1st Edition
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Get the definitive guide to learning how to exploit the built-in functionality in Outlook 2007. Written by two experts on Outlook extensibility, this book delivers practical guidance and extensive code samples to help you extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop.
Discover how to:
- Programmatically create built-in item types to expose Outlook functionality in your solution
- Use the Items collection and Table object to access containers for Outlook items
- Connect to shared folders, Internet calendars, and RSS subscriptions
- Write event handlers and hook up event delegates for Outlook objects
- Implement programmatic search and organizational schemas
- Add controls at design-time or runtime to help you build rich form regions
- Extend the Office Fluent Ribbon with customized task panes and property pages
- Develop trusted add-ins that do not display security prompts
- Write registry keys, install required assemblies, and deploy your solution
Companion Web site includes:- Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C#
- Reusable code snippets
- Add-in templates and samples
- ISBN-100735622493
- ISBN-13978-0735622494
- Edition1st
- PublisherMicrosoft Press
- Publication dateMarch 10, 2007
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.38 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- Print length608 pages
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-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.
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- Publisher : Microsoft Press; 1st edition (March 10, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0735622493
- ISBN-13 : 978-0735622494
- Item Weight : 2.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,018,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #120 in Microsoft Outlook Guides
- #152 in Email Administration
- #244 in E-mail (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2007Anyone 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2011I am an experienced programmer and have expertise in c, c++ and c#. I didn't rate this book at all. It's written from a Visual basic mind set and does not dig into the technical side required for programming real applications. Basic things you need to know are missing. One example amidst the vast amount of info missing is; the private button on the menu when creating a task is not discussed at all.
If you want to program outlook professionally, buy another book.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2008If you're writing add-ins for Outlook, then this book is essential. The small cost of the book will save you days of trying to work out the best most appropriate ways to do things with the new object model.
Programming Outlook 2007? Writing an add-in? Want to speed up the development time? This is the book for you...
- Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2008This 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2008I 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.