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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: This book does not provide enough technical detail to teach you how to program for Exchange 2000. Furthermore, the title claims "Web Applications", which is really thin in this volume.I'd advise against wasting your money.
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Summary: Excellent as a Text and Reference book
Review: This book is a complete reference and text book for writing applications for Exchange 2000. It has details for everything you might want to do to program Exchange 2000. It is full of exmaples that cover all the items covered in the book.
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Summary: Good reference to how WSS works
Review: This book is a good, solid introduction to the Exchange 2000 Web Storage System. It describes the fundamentals of how to build collaborative applications, but it's clearly intended more for the back-end programmer. Those who complain "oh, the code is in VB" are missing the point; it's trivial to adapt the provided code to run as ASP, and in most cases where changes are necessary the author points out how to make them.
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Summary: Absolute waste of money
Review: This book is atrocious...plain and simple. There isn't a single thing in here that couldn't be gathered by glancing at the SDK documentation. Not to mention, it's wrong!! When was the last time you were able to access objects via the ipp provider and have your way with them?? according to this book...you can...interesting...
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Summary: Barely Worthwhile
Review: This book is full of teasers. It starts to show you how to do something (which is the part that can be written by one of the VB wizards) then defuncts to "enter code here" where you're supposed to do something. It also spends a lot of time explaining CDO, which is great, but does not tell you how to implement your CDO application on the Exchange server. However, there is a lot of helpful information on implementing Event Sinks on the Exchange server except for the final registration step where you can use ADO or the VBS provided with Exchange. It doesn't explain how to implement the ADO registration, and the VBS command line wants a URL to your target folder that starts as /backoffice/... where did that come from?! The book also fails to take into account the developer who wants to modify incoming emails (not create new ones, not move them around) before they are saved to the folder, and doesn't even mention the fact that in order to access MAPI through recordsets you need to use the HEX values for the MAPI properties. Good luck finding a list of the HEX values! In the end, this book is another rehash of Exchange 2000 documentation what was poorly written in the beginning, and lacking on crucial details that apparently nobody has devled into because they are just too difficult.
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Summary: The definitive reference on Exchange 2000
Review: This book kicks! As of Sept/00 this is the definitive Exchange 2000 reference, beats the pants off Thomas Rizzos' update, don't waste your money there (a re-hash, buy this one instead.
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Summary: Best Book Available on Exchange 2000 Software Development
Review: This is easily the best book I have found on Exchange 2000 development. The book has amazing breadth, covering what you need to know about ADO, CDO, XML, Security, Events, Workflow, and Active Directory to build real applications for the Exchange 2000 platform. WOW. And I found the sample code to be extremely useful (although VBScript samples would have been even better). It also has a handy reference of the Web Storage System schema properties. Thank you Mindy Martin.
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Summary: Best Book Available on Exchange 2000 Software Development
Review: This is easily the best book I have found on Exchange 2000 development. The book has amazing breadth, covering what you need to know about ADO, CDO, XML, Security, Events, Workflow, and Active Directory to build real applications for the Exchange 2000 platform. WOW. And I found the sample code to be extremely useful (although VBScript samples would have been even better). It also has a handy reference of the Web Storage System schema properties. Thank you Mindy Martin.
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