Chapter 12 - Automating Outlook | Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro

Chapter 12 - Automating Outlook

Imagine writing applications that send you e-mail when an error occurs or put important dates (like the one your check is due) right onto the user s calendar.

Outlook often reminds us of those infomercials on late night television it slices, it dices, it juliennes. Outlook does so many different things that it s hard to categorize. It s far more than just an e-mail client in fact, neither of us uses it that way habitually. But it s not just a calendar/scheduler or address book, either. In many ways, Outlook is the replacement for the whole collection of items that most of us still keep on our desks the Rolodex^®, datebook, pad of paper, telephone, and collection of Post-Its™. While we re not ready to throw any of them out quite yet, we do find ourselves relying on Outlook more and more (at least while the computer is turned on).