Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

Visual Basic's Role in Building Collaborative Applications

Visual Basic can be integrated with Exchange in a wide variety of ways, working as a part of another application or as a completely standalone program. You can put a VB application or component into every stage and system that is part of a collaborative solution. This is due in most part to the power of COM (Component Object Model), the component communication standard that is supported by every part of a collaborative system, including Outlook, VB, and VBScript. This common foundation allows you to leverage code created with VB in a wide variety of ways. Following are the more common ways in which VB can be used as part of a collaborative solution. Although quite a few examples are listed ...