Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference - Softcover

Gifford, Dwayne

9781861002532: Outlook 2000 VBA Programmers Reference

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186100253X ISBN 13: 9781861002532

Publisher: Apress, 1999

Outlook 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. At present, most people use Outlook for sending and receiving emails and little else, However, Outlook 2000 is set to become a very powerful organizational tool. Outlook 2000 now hosts VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and hence there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation. Using VBA, the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is neat because it allows you to automate a lot of mailing and calendaring tasks that would otherwise take up a lot of time - one press of a button could take names from an Access database, write a letter in Word addressed to each individual, and then email all the letters at once.

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Review:

With its extensive customization facilities and its ability to serve as a skeleton for fairly elaborate custom groupware, Outlook 2000 receives a good deal of attention from developers. Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference explains--in both tutorial and reference form--how Outlook can be manipulated to best suit you or your company's needs.

The majority of this book employs a tutorial to examine the structure of the Outlook object model. The book approaches one object at a time--presenting the properties, methods, and events of each--along with some commentary and illustrative code. It also includes an introduction to the general structure and syntax of Outlook VBA programs, plus a couple of complete applications that call on several aspects of the VBA object model.

Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference concludes with a compact reference to the Outlook 2000 object model. It's complete and provides useful descriptions of each property, method, and event, but it suffers from the same formatting problem as the other books in this series. When an object description extends beyond one page, it's not possible to tell which object is being documented without flipping back to the beginning of the entry. --David Wall

From the Publisher:

This book presents a full reference to the Outlook object model - which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Outlook program. There will be a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book will document aspects of programming Outlook through that object model.

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