Windows® CE 3.0 Application Programming

POOM—The Pocket Office Object Model

This chapter looks at accessing the Pocket Outlook (such as Contact, Task, or Calendar) information using the Pocket Office Object Model (POOM). In times past, applications used Windows CE API functions or manipulated the Outlook property databases directly. Now, though, POOM is the recommended mechanism to use.

POOM is implemented as a set of COM interfaces that are related together to form an object model (Figure 14.2). Figure 14.2 expresses two types of relationships between interfaces.

Figure 14.2. The Pocket Office Object Model

• The thin lines represent a "returns interface" relationship. For example, ...