Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming

Introduction

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, the sixth version of Microsoft’s premier email and collaboration application, has arrived at a fork in the road. On one side are the professional developers who use Visual Studio .NET to produce add-ins that integrate tightly with Outlook. On the other side are the smart end-users and rushed administrators who want to bend Outlook to their will and work (or play) more productively. As the Office 2007 beta was getting under way, K. D. Hallman, Microsoft’s General Manager for Visual Studio Tools for Office, estimated that there were 3–4 million professional Office developers and 16 million non-professional Office developers.

I wrote this book for the latter group—mainly for people who don’t program Outlook ...