Sams Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours

Microsoft Outlook 2000 can do a lot on its own, but its real value--particularly for organizations--comes in its considerable capacity for customization. Sams Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours provides you with the programming skills you need to do valuable, productivity-enhancing Outlook 2000 customization work, even if you've never written code in your life.

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 customizing the interface; reacting to user behavior; and working with stores, folders, and items.

This guide mostly teaches by example. Typically, it sets 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 companion CD-ROM, so readers are stuck typing code by hand. In addition to the prose and code listings, there are plenty of tables that document the details of various pieces of the object model. --David Wall