Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators

by Sue Mosher

Overview

Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used e-mail program and offers the most programmability. Sue Mosher introduces key concepts for programming Outlook using Visual Basic for Applications, custom Outlook forms, and external scripts, without the need for additional development tools.

For those who manage Outlook installations, it demonstrates how to use new features in the Outlook 2007 programming model such as building scripts that can create rules and views and manage categories. Power users will discover how to enhance Outlook with custom features, such as the ability to process incoming mail and extract key information. Aimed at the non-professional programmer, it also provides a quick guide to Outlook programming basics for pro developers who want to dive into Outlook integration.

• Dozens of new programming objects detailed including views, rules, categories, searches
• No previous coding experience or additional development tools required
• Examples outline issues using real-world functionality

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080548739
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/19/2007
Series:	Microsoft Outlook Programming Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	848
File size:	57 MB
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About the Author

Sue Mosher is the author of six previous books on Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and maintains a web site at http://www.outlookcode.com devoted to helping programmers at all skill levels take advantage of Outlook’s extensibility. Her company, Turtleflock LLC, helps organizations get the most out of Outlook and other Microsoft Office products, providing custom application development and other support. Sue has been recognized by Microsoft with a Most Valuable Professional award every year since 1994. Sue is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary, currently residing in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

1: What you can do with Outlook?

PART I: Basic Outlook VBA Design 2: The VBA Design Environment 3: Building Your First VBA Form

PART II: Basic Outlook Form Design 4: Introducing Outlook Forms 5: Introducing Form Regions 6: Extending Form Design with Fields and Controls

PART III: Writing VBA and VBScript Code 7: Code Basics 8: Code Grammar 101 9: Handling Errors, Testing and Debugging

PART IV: Fundamental Outlook Coding Techniques 10: Outlook Programming Basics 11: Responding to Outlook Events in VBA 12: Responding to Events in Outlook Forms 13: Working with Stores, Explorers, and Folders 14: Working with Inspectors, Items, and Item Properties 15: Working with Recipients and Address Lists 16: More Item Techniques 17: Working with Attachments

PART V: Extended Outlook Form Design 18: More Control Techniques 19: Common Outlook Form Techniques 20: Deploying and Managing Outlook Forms 21: Building Form-based Workflows 22: Working with Files and Other Objects 23: Common Outlook Administrator Scripting Tasks 24: Menus, Toolbars, and the Navigation Pane 25: Generating Reports on Outlook Data 26: Working with Exchange and Databases

Appendix A: Other Resources Appendix B: Concepts for Professional Developers Appendix C: Key Procedures You Can Reuse

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Appropriate for new or power users, this book features all concepts and programming available with Outlook E12!

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
As powerful as Microsoft Outlook is "out of the box," it's way more powerful with a little customization. We're not talking heavy-duty Visual Studio legerdemain: just stuff a reasonably sophisticated user can do with Outlook's own tools and features -- and some expert help. Well, nobody's more of an expert on customizing Outlook than Microsoft MVP Sue Mosher.

In Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming, Mosher teaches the skills you'll need to create your own custom rules for handling messages; to search/replace data throughout Outlook (handy next time the phone company changes area codes); to create custom reports in HTML or other Office formats; even to build Outlook Forms that mimic the forms your business already uses.

Mosher, who's now written seven Outlook books, is singularly competent at demystifying the more technical areas of Outlook. She guides you comfortably through Outlook 2007's VBA environment, basic VBA design, and the elements and "grammar" of effective VBA coding. You'll get up and running quickly with simple forms; then learn how to extend them with fields and controls.

Next, she illuminates Outlook's "object model," showing how to control and automate most of the data you can enter into Outlook: items, messages, message recipients, attachments, and more. Now that your application is working, Mosher turns to polishing it, taking some control over Outlook's core user interface (to the extent that Microsoft permits). There's also a very practical chapter on deploying your Outlook Forms to users, and then managing it once it's in the field.

Mosher's primary audience isn't the full-time professional Office developer: It's the millions of people who just want to solve their problems as efficiently as possible (and maybe with a little extra panache). Bill Camarda, from the August 2007 Read Only