Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

Chapter 7. Microsoft Outlook 2000 VBA

One of the newest and, in my opinion, most useful features of Microsoft Outlook 2000 is the addition of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). In Chapter 6, "Microsoft Outlook 2000 Forms Development," I discussed how you can add functionality to your forms by writing VBScript that executes when certain form level and control level events occur. Outlook 2000 has taken this further by including an environment to create macros, developed in VBA, that can be executed at the application level instead of at the form/item level. These macros can be executed manually by the user of Outlook or automatically based on various events that can occur from within Outlook, such as when new mail is received or when items have ...