Outlook 2000 programming in 24 hours

• Understanding Outlook 2000's new VBA capabilities
• Printing custom reports
• Building search and replace routines for categories and message text
• Debugging in both VBScript and VBA
• Including custom toolbars and menus in your programs
• Updating all or just selected items in an Outlook folder
• Integrating data from databases and Microsoft Exchange Server
• Understanding essential string and date functions
• Deploying Outlook forms and applications
• Using VBA forms to collect user input
• Converting Outlook forms to HTML forms for Outlook Web Access

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Outlook Form Design

Hour 1: What You Can Do with Outlook 2000

Hour 2: Six Forms in Search of a Designer

Hour 3: Create Your First Custom Contact Form

Hour 4: Extend Form Design with a Custom Task Form

Part II: Design with VBA

Hour 5: The VBA Design Environment

Hour 6: A VBA Birthday/Anniversary Reminder Tool

Hour 7: More on Controls

Part III: Adding Code

Hour 8: Code Basics

Hour 9: Code Grammar 101

Hour 10: Working with Expressions and Functions

Hour 11: Controlling Program Flow

Hour 12: Handling User Input and Feedback

Part IV: Special Outlook Techniques

Hour 13: Working with the Object Models

Hour 14: Commanding with Custom Actions

Hour 15: Working with Stores and Folders

Hour 16: Working with Items

Hour 17: Responding to Outlook Events in VBA

Hour 18: Menus, Toolbars, and the Outlook Bar

Part V: Finishing Touches

Hour 19: Debugging Applications

Hour 20: ActiveX and Other Controls

Hour 21: Getting Started with Outlook Reports

Hour 22: Designing Reports with Microsoft Word

Hour 23: Exchange Server and Database Collaboration

Hour 24: Deploying Forms and Applications

Part VI: Appendixes

Appendix A: Answers

Appendix B: Resources for Outlook Programming

Index