Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange 2003, Third Edition

Thomas Rizzo

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Copyright 2004 by Thomas Rizzo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rizzo, Thomas, 1972-
               Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange 2003, Third Edition / Thomas Rizzo. ”3rd ed.
                               p. cm.
               Includes index.
               ISBN 0-7356-1464-4
               1. Application software ”Development.    2. Microsoft Outlook.    3. Microsoft Exchange.    I. Title.

       QA76.76.A65R59    2003
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For Stacy, my loving wife, who inspired, endured, and provided her love and support during the long process of writing this book. I love you.

For my educators in the truly worthwhile things of life: my mother and father.
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Acknowledgments

Writing a book is never a one person job. It always involves help from other people either reviewing your work or teaching you things that you never knew before. The first people to thank are the folks at Microsoft Press, especially Barbara Moreland, John Pierce, Anne Hamilton, Jerry Camel, Kay Unkroth, Ina Chang, and Seth Maslin. Their hard work is greatly appreciated.

Thanks are owed to a number of people throughout Microsoft who helped in one way or another with this endeavor. First and foremost, thanks must go to the members of the Exchange and Outlook teams who contributed to my knowledge of both products. Among those who helped me were members of the OWA team, specifically Jim Van Eaton and Bob Gering, who lent their expertise of XML, XSL, WebDAV, and OWA to the Training application in the Exchange chapters. Unfortunately, Bob passed away during the writing of this book. Bob was always willing to help both Microsoft and non-Microsoft developers with the questions they had and always gave a helping hand figuring out hard coding problems. The information that Bob provided and the help he gave me on the code in this book are a testament to the good person that Bob was. Bob, you'll be missed.

Thanks go to people who were on the Exchange Development team when this book was being written including Nat Ballou, Andrew Sinclair, Naveen Kachroo, Jamie Cool, Alex Hopmann, Jim Reitz, Chuck Daniel, and Dana Birkby, who filled me in on the latest and greatest about the Exchange technologies. Another debt of gratitude must go to the Exchange management team including Gord Mangione and Stan Sorensen because I stole away the time of their valuable people to answer my questions during the two years this book was written.

I also have to thank the SharePoint team. Their enthusiasm for helping me get my questions answered and getting the best information out to their developer community really shows in the SharePoint chapters. Thanks to SharePoint management, especially Jeff Teper and Jon Kauffman, who allowed their people to help me whenever I needed it. A special thanks goes to Viki Selca, Clint Covington, Brian Murphy, Suraj Poozhiyil, and Nilly Banerjee, who reviewed my SharePoint chapters, provided great feedback, and offered their time unselflessly.

Special thanks also go to Jeff Wierer and Lyle Curry, who helped throughout the process of this book. They provided some great ideas for the sample applications for the book.

Thomas Rizzo

Thomas Rizzo is a group product manager in the SQL Server product group. Before working on SQL Server, Tom worked in the Exchange Server group for five years, where his focus was getting customers to use the platform confidently. Prior to moving to Microsoft's corporate product teams, Tom worked as a systems engineer for the Microsoft office in Washington, D.C. He holds a degree from Georgetown University.