Chapter 12 -- Collaboration Data Objects

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Chapter 12

As you saw in Chapter 7, you can use Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) to develop powerful Web applications that are not dependent on the capabilities of the browser. This power of ASP comes not from the built-in libraries of the ASP object model but rather from Active Server components you call from your ASP programs. This chapter covers one of those Active Server components—Collaboration Data Objects, or CDO—which enables you to develop messaging and collaboration applications for the Web. You can use CDO for other purposes as well, such as in client-based or server-based applications that you develop. In this chapter, you will learn what CDO is and how it compares to other technologies, what objects are in the CDO library, and how you can start developing ASP and Microsoft Visual Basic applications that take advantage of this library.