Developing Applications for Microsoft® Exchange with C++

Developing Applications for Microsoft® Exchange with C++. (Microsoft Press: Redmond, Washington, 1996.) 592pp. ISBN 1-57231-500-8. Currently out of print.

Developing Applications for Microsoft® Exchange with C++ (hereafter abbreviated D.A.M.E.) describes the programmable infrastructure beneath an Exchange or Outlook application, carefully explaining the development of Exchange client extensions, MAPI form servers, and Exchange folder applications within the WMS and Microsoft Exchange Server environment.

Like most such books, D.A.M.E. contains a large number of examples, which appear in the book as source code. Several of these are even useful programs in their own right.

While the book has fallen out of print, I have published here those portions to which I retained full rights:

Table of Contents
Errata from the book
Unpublished appendix of Exchange 4.0 client-specific formats, documenting message links, folder shortcuts, and view descriptors
Coding standards used in the book's sample applications, including the Hungarian variable naming convention
Source code to all the examples from the book, including the most recent versions of all the useful Widgets

Special limited offer! I still have a few promotional copies of my book. If you're in Seattle, I'd be happy to give you one of these copies in exchange for, say, a good bottle of wine, or some flowers, or, I don't know, maybe a Colt Woodsman .22 with the six inch barrel (hey, I can dream). (As I don't have time for the overhead of packaging and shipping, you'll need to fetch the book in person, unless you want to engage a courier to retrieve the book on your behalf.)

About the Book

Microsoft Exchange Server already contains its own application design environment for building many kinds of information-sharing applications on top of Exchange. So why read this book?

You need to integrate with Microsoft Exchange in a manner not possible through the Exchange Server Application Design Environment.
You need to integrate with Microsoft Outlook in a manner not possible through the Outlook Object Model.
You prefer C and C++ to Visual Basic, the glue language of the Exchange Server Application Design Environment.
You seek the performance and flexibility available with lower-level languages.
You are not using Exchange Server, but are instead working with Exchange or the Windows Messaging client on other messaging services.
You program using the Win32 MAPI interfaces, and seek to study other MAPI programs.

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Last modified: 2 February 2002

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