This book covers the full range of Outlook 2000 programming skills, starting with the Forms Designer and the essentials of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) program structure and syntax (including data structures, control structures, input/output mechanisms and events). After laying a base of skills, it explains the Outlook 2000 object model in some depth, documenting techniques for customising the interface, reacting to user behavior, and working with stores, folders and items.

This guide mostly teaches by example. Typically, it will set a goal--building an Outlook-based vacation-request system, for example--and walks the reader through the building process with a combination of prose and code listings. One shortcoming: There's no CD-ROM, so readers are stuck typing code by hand. In addition to the prose and code listings, the author includes plenty of tables that document the details of various pieces of the object model. --David Wall

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours shows you how to build forms in both the Outlook forms designer and VBA. This book also shows you how to write programming code both behind those forms and at the application level to accomplish tasks expected of a personal information manager like Outlook. The examples emphasize PIM activities such as creating a follow-up call for a contact, managing standard replies and deploying Outlook forms and applications. The author describes good programming practices including naming conventions, debugging and commenting. By the end of the book, you'll be able to confidently handle Outlook objects and know how to explore the application's programming capabilities to extend it further.