- Paperback: 704 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735605092
- ISBN-13: 978-0735605091
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.8 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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Microsoft books exist in a world where Microsoft software is the best and only option. Rizzo's book on creating collaborative apps using Exchange Server 5.5 (and 2000), Outlook 2000 and IE as application platforms with VBScript for glue shows how simple it can be to meet common business needs via dialogue boxes and standard forms without traditional programming.
Rizzo breaks collaborative apps into five categories: messaging, tracking, workflow, real-time and knowledge management; though an app may have elements from each. Naturally, there are gotchas even in MS programming paradise. For example, Rizzo explains how Outlook 2000 implements a cut down IE for HTML display, but to fully implement security in frames you have to force it to use IE itself--which then means you can't access some of Outlook's enhancements.
ASP features large, for example, to convert Outlook forms to HTML. This throws up more gotchas as Outlook's forms have more features than are available in HTML. There's a discussion of the new Digital Dashboards in Chapter 11 which use ActiveX objects, details on new and improved features of Exchange 5.5, such as the Event Scripting Agent and naturally the obligatory chapter on XML and XSL. But this is a book about using the results of such technologies rather than programming with them.
Rizzo had access to the Outlook and Exchange developers so the book feels authoritative, with example apps and code, all of it on the accompanying CD. But Microsoft's hand lies humourless and heavy. In places the book reads more like a press release. Still, anyone building collaborative apps using Outlook and Exchange will benefit from this book, just don't count the evangelising. -- Steve Patient --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Written by an accomplished solutions developer who is currently a product manager in the Microsoft Exchange group, this is the definitive guide to development for Microsoft's powerful messaging and collaboration tools. The CD-ROM contains an evaluation copy of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, sample applications, ADSI software, and sample Outlook forms.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
None of the examples goes in-depth enough, and the level of the book is very strangely targeted. I bought it expecting to perhaps be out of my depth since it is intended for enterprise level developers, but in fact I can't see it suiting any level of developer.
The examples are not very high level, hence unsuitable for developers, whilst the examples that are given, frustratingly, lack any kind of step by step help for beginners. Want to set up an Outlook form which has an option box for polling your customers? Rizzo says you can do it, but not how you can do it, and this kind of stuff is repeated throughout the book. As such this book is really only useful for evaluating Outlook rather than using it - it is very useful to have by your side when presenting Outlook/Exchange to your company as a possible new mail client/server solution, but for anything more 'advanced', even basic form design, you are going to need something with more meat to it, like Mosher's book on Outlook programming.
To be honest, this book is really just PR for Outlook and Exchange, and could have been written by anyone who has surfed the Outlook and Exchange sites for a few weeks and looked at the Outlook and Exchange programs for a few hours.
Back to O'Reilly books, I think :)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you read the blurb about this book it says that it will enable you to "Build collaborative solutions that bridge-and extend-enterprise resources". However the programming examples hop around without following a step-by-step approach. If you would like to increase your Outlook knowledge at the same time as totally confusing yourself - I would recommend this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange is not really a programming book in the traditional sense, even though it introduces you to most of the high-level concepts necessary for using ADSI and ASP to interact with Microsoft Exchange. The last two chapters which explain how to get Exchange to work with ADSI--the real reason I bought the book--provide code samples that are only partially functional at best with only spotty, fairly useless commentary by the author. This leads me to believe that the author may not have understood the examples thoroughly. Getting Exchange to work correcly with ADSI can be a hair-pulling experience. This book would have been worth the money if it had sunk to a slightly lower level and provided more technical information.
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The most complete guide to Exchange Development
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in developing solutions around Exchange. For me, this books has been invaluable in assisting me develop folder based event scripts. Read more
Published on 29 May 2000
The way to go with the duo Exchange/Outlook
If you want to start using Outlook to improve your company Exchange messaging infraestruture, this one is the way to go. Step by step. Just excellent.
Published on 24 Feb 2000
A LOT of information
I thought I knew everything about Exchange before reading this book, but I can see I was mistaken. This book contains a LOT of information of different topics that any... Read more
Published on 29 Jun 1999
Excellent Reference for Outlook/Exchange Programmers
When I first picked up this book, I'd thought it be like all the other technical books I've bought. . . a lot of fluff and very little meat. Well, was I in for a surprise. Read more
Published on 28 April 1999
CD does not contain evaluation copy of Exchange 5.5
"The CD-ROM contains an evaluation copy of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5,..." is a blatant lie. Read more
Published on 23 April 1999
Excellent, readable book from someone who knows
As the member of the Outlook team responsible for the technologies Tom writes about, I give him due credit for providing accurate, in-depth, and extremely accessible information. Read more
Published on 22 April 1999
This book is excellent!
I just got it a few days ago & I'm starting to use the stuff I'm reading already. I've got lots of books in this area, but this is the one to have.
Published on 21 April 1999
Excellent book
I am often surprised by the low quality of technical books that I buy. It seems that the author tries to fill in as many pages as possible, and get it to press by some ridiculuous... Read more
Published on 15 April 1999
Informative read on messaging technologies
Having spent just a short time working with the Outlook object model and trying to make a decision on how I can leverage this existing technology with internet technologies, I... Read more
Published on 7 April 1999
A must-have for Exchange/Outlook developers
I agree with all of the reviewers that have preceeded me on this page. The book is great in many, many ways. Read more
Published on 7 April 1999
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