CDO & MAPI Programming with Visual Basic: Developing Mail and Messaging Applications

by Dave Grundgeiger

Computers and devices are more connected now than ever before. Why? Because the humans who use those computers need to collaborate. We need to share information, and we need to do it quickly, without... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156592665X
• ISBN13: 9781565926653
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Simple; to the point

This book is very thin, but don't let that throw you. The examples are easy to follow, and very concise. I just wish that there was a .NET version available.

Very useful reference

For the size of this book, it does a good job of covering the MAPI/CDO (both Win32 API and ActiveX) objects at an intermediate-programmer level - presenting the objects and object models with enough information that you can begin to use them right away, but not getting so technical that you lose interest or begin to only understand the minority of what you are reading.The author does include sample code for most of the objects that are covered, although many of those sample codes are spread out over a page or more and separated by paragraphs of explanatory text which can cause a little delay for readers that skim, or jump directly to topics, as back-tracking is often needed to find the start of the desired code. The publisher's web site does provide a download for some of the sample code - but the download only includes the full projects the book goes into, and not most of the smaller projects or snippets used in the bulk of the book.I did find that the author had included many unnecessary screenshots for a book aimed at intermediate to advanced programmers; it was also frustrating that many of the screenshots the author choose were of related topics but only used to explain how to `point-and-click' through making settings changes, rather than how to perform the task programmatically. One such example is the Mail control panel applet, where the author showed how to add an information provider to the selected user's profile (in the book's case the Personal Address Book service was added) but did not cover how to do it through programming. In fact, it was never mentioned if the task could even be performed programmatically.Overall, the book is a great reference for MAPI/CDO objects and will come in very handy for anyone needing to generically access the common e-mail functions and folders (inbox, calendar, contacts, etc.) quickly.

Not dry!

This book is written in a warm, conversational tone. The set up is easy to read with important points highlighted. It is apparent the author really knows a lot about computer programming.

Just what I needed, just in time.

Dear Publisher: I just wanted to thank you for this excellent resource!!. I just purchased the book on Saturday and it has already proven extremely valuable on my current development project. I have been looking for exactly this information for a long time. What's more, the sample functions are very useful and have actually solved problems I had in my development effort. Thank you for this terrific resource! Tony Scharf Matrix Media Solutions, Inc.