CDO & MAPI Programming with Visual Basic:

Developing Mail and Messaging Applications

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Developing Mail and Messaging Applications

By Dave Grundgeiger

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: October 2000

Pages: 384

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 regard to the physical distance that separates us. Corporate solution developers now more than ever have the opportunity and responsibility to enable people to communicate in ways never before possible.

CDO and MAPI Programming with Visual Basic: Developing Mail and Messaging Applications dives deep into Microsoft's Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) and the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), then moves into succinct explanations of the types of useful messaging applications that can be written in Visual Basic.

Microsoft has given the Visual Basic community Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)--a technology that goes far beyond simple email, fully into the realm of information workflow. CDO enables Visual Basic applications to exchange not only classic email, but in fact any information in a straightforward and easy way. The Internet--sometimes seen as a barrier by developers--is turned into an open pipe, ready to take your application's data around the world. Routing documents and building email list servers is just the beginning. Harness the power of worldwide communication in your everyday business applications.

MAPI is the cornerstone of messaging on the Windows platforms, and profoundly influences the way you will write your collaboration applications. Understanding this technology lays the foundation for adding effective collaboration capabilities to your own applications.

CDO and MAPI Programming with Visual Basic: Developing Mail and Messaging Applications fills a gap in an exciting and relatively young, yet popular, technology that lacks adequate documentation.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 MAPI
1. MAPI Architecture
2. Other Messaging Technologies
3. Obtaining MAPI
4. Programmatically Discovering Whether MAPI Is Present
5. Programmatically Discovering Profile Names and the Default Profile
6. Summary
Chapter 3 Simple MAPI
1. Accessing APIs from Visual Basic
2. Establishing a Session
3. Sending Mail
4. Sending File Attachments
5. Reading Mail
6. Reading File Attachments
7. Showing the Address Book
8. Showing Recipient Properties
9. Microsoft’s Helper Functions
10. Summary
Chapter 4 The MAPI ActiveX Controls
1. Getting Started
2. The MAPISession Control
3. The MAPIMessages Control
4. Sending Mail
5. Sending File Attachments
6. Sending Embedded OLE Objects
7. Reading Mail
8. Reading File Attachments
9. Showing the Address Book
10. Advanced Features
11. Miscellanea
12. Assessing the MAPI Controls
13. Summary
Chapter 5 Collaboration Data Objects
1. COM
2. Object Models
3. The CDO Object Model
4. Accessing CDO Online Help
5. CDO Licensing
6. Where to Go from Here
7. Summary
Chapter 6 An Email Client Application
1. The Sample Application
2. Establishing a Session
3. Sending Mail
4. Sending File Attachments
5. Sending File References
6. Sending OLE Objects
7. Sending Embedded Messages
8. Reading Mail
9. Reading File Attachments
10. Reading File References
11. Reading OLE Objects
12. Reading Embedded Messages
13. Forwarding and Replying to Mail
14. Formatted Text
15. Showing the Address Book
16. Summary
Chapter 7 Enhancing the Email Client
1. How CDO Wraps MAPI Objects
2. Handling Message Items
3. Working with Folders
4. Folders with Special Status
5. Hidden Messages
6. Working with Address Books
7. Filters
8. Summary
Chapter 8 Calendar Folders
1. Finding the Default Calendar Folder
2. Appointments and Meetings
3. Viewing Calendar Contents
4. Filtering Appointments by StartTime and EndTime
5. Creating an Appointment
6. Deleting an Appointment
7. Creating a Meeting
8. Getting Free/Busy Information
9. Recurrence
10. Summary
Chapter 9 Task Folders
1. Finding the Default Task Folder
2. Reading Tasks
3. Creating a Task
4. Copying, Moving, and Deleting
5. Using Message Filters with Task Folders
6. Task Item-Specific Propertiesand the Fields Collection
7. Summary
Chapter 10 Contacts Folders
1. Finding the Default Contacts Folder
2. Reading Contact Information
3. Filtering Contacts
4. Creating a Contact
5. Embedding a Contact in an Email
6. Summary
Chapter 11 Web Applications
1. The Development Environment
2. The Server Environment
3. ASP Applications and Sessions
4. Establishing a MAPI Session
5. Displaying CDO Data
6. Summary
Chapter 12 CDO for Windows 2000
1. Getting Started
2. The CDO for Windows 2000Object Model
3. Sending Email
4. Receiving Email
5. Summary

Appendix Programming Internet Email Protocols
1. How Email Is Sent on the Internet
2. The Winsock Control
3. Establishing a Connection
4. Sending Commands and Receiving Responses
5. Sending Email
6. Retrieving Email
7. Summary
Appendix Programming the Outlook Object Model
1. The Outlook Object Model Diagram
2. Getting Started
3. Connecting to Outlook and Establishing a MAPI Session
4. Sending Email
5. Reading Email
6. Summary
Appendix The Outlook E-mail Security Update
Appendix Where Am I Running?
1. 32-Bit Applications
2. 16-Bit Applications
Appendix Resources for Messaging Developers
1. MAPI and CDO Downloads
2. Discussion Lists
3. Newsgroups
4. Messaging-Related Web Sites
5. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Appendix Obtaining the Sample Code
1. Downloading the Code
2. What’s in the Download
3. Registering the CdoHelper Component
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The sample application does not run "out of the box" under Windows 2000. It just hangs during the splash. More importantly, the so called "sample code" available for the book is just a simple VB application and C++ DLL and does not include many of the various useful (and sometimes long) snippets of code from the text. Be prepared for some (re)typing. Makes you wonder why the author constantly brags about his coding solutions for various problems. Cough up all the code!!! It seems like the quality of O'Reilly books has been slipping over the last year or two. Wait for the second edition.

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Very good history and future of CDO & MAPI. Very good explanation of CDO/MAPI objects, classes and methods. Very good code examples. Nice Factoids too. All in all very good book, which has paid off many times over! Between 4 and 5 owls.

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The book CDO & MAPI is a very good book for explaining programmig with CDO and MAPI. I am a programmer on an AS/400 and so I am a newcomer in Visual Basic. So the bigges problem is to get the right books for the problems I have to solve in our projects even in the windows world.

This book is not easy to read for a newcomer, but it explains everything about CDO adn MAPI very well. It is really worth the money I paid. The only thing that could be better is, that the code for the examples is complete and not several parts on several pages.

But all in all a very good book like all the other O'reilly books.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 MAPI

MAPI Architecture

Other Messaging Technologies

Obtaining MAPI

Programmatically Discovering Whether MAPI Is Present

Programmatically Discovering Profile Names and the Default Profile

Summary

Chapter 3 Simple MAPI

Accessing APIs from Visual Basic

Establishing a Session

Sending Mail

Sending File Attachments

Reading Mail

Reading File Attachments

Showing the Address Book

Showing Recipient Properties

Microsoft’s Helper Functions

Summary

Chapter 4 The MAPI ActiveX Controls

Getting Started

The MAPISession Control

The MAPIMessages Control

Sending Mail

Sending File Attachments

Sending Embedded OLE Objects

Reading Mail

Reading File Attachments

Showing the Address Book

Advanced Features

Miscellanea

Assessing the MAPI Controls

Summary

Chapter 5 Collaboration Data Objects

COM

Object Models

The CDO Object Model

Accessing CDO Online Help

CDO Licensing

Where to Go from Here

Summary

Chapter 6 An Email Client Application

The Sample Application

Establishing a Session

Sending Mail

Sending File Attachments

Sending File References

Sending OLE Objects

Sending Embedded Messages

Reading Mail

Reading File Attachments

Reading File References

Reading OLE Objects

Reading Embedded Messages

Forwarding and Replying to Mail

Formatted Text

Showing the Address Book

Summary

Chapter 7 Enhancing the Email Client

How CDO Wraps MAPI Objects

Handling Message Items

Working with Folders

Folders with Special Status

Hidden Messages

Working with Address Books

Filters

Summary

Chapter 8 Calendar Folders

Finding the Default Calendar Folder

Appointments and Meetings

Viewing Calendar Contents

Filtering Appointments by StartTime and EndTime

Creating an Appointment

Deleting an Appointment

Creating a Meeting

Getting Free/Busy Information

Recurrence

Summary

Chapter 9 Task Folders

Finding the Default Task Folder