Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, 3rd Edition

Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 3rd Edition (March, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735622493
ISBN-13: 978-0735622494

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Learn how to extend Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with this comprehensive reference. Complete with code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Visual C#®, this guide delivers the information that developers need to create customized solutions.

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

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.