Book Description Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) is a technology that is used for applications that involve information sharing and flow processes. CDO is a scripting interface to MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface), introduced in Outlook 98. Prior to the availability of CDO, programming messaging from ASP application required you to buy components. Messaging components have been the top selling components for ASP developers for the last 2 years. This is part of Microsoft's attack on Lotus Domino/Notes which has previously provided a more powerful programming environment for collaborative applications than MS Exchange. CDO is particularly attractive because of its ability to integrate with Office and BackOffice/ASP applications.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Only somewhat useful
I bought this book on the advice of a respected web site. I was disappointed. I fully understood that this book was printed in 1999. This was okay because I needed information on the "old" technology, which is currently available in the form of "Redemption" for Outlook (not by Microsoft.)
The author uses each chapter to build a sample application. For those of us trying to solve specific problems, this is a very difficult format to work with because you have to hunt through all of the ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't cover CDO 2000!
This book covers CDO 1.2.1. It does not cover CDO for Windows 2000. I did not discover this until I bought the book. The project I was working on required CDO 2000, so the book was worthless to me.
Rating: - A little disjointed
While most of what you need to know about CDO programming is in this book, I found that the information could have been presented in a more friendly manner. Most of the examples seem to be spread out throughout several chapters, leaving you to do a lot of flipping back and forth to figure out fairly straight forward information. Quite frustrating. To be fair to the authors, I have found this to be the case with most of the books in the WROX library, so it is probably just the editorial style of the ... Read More
Rating: - Become an Expert in CDO from scratch
This book will give you and Inside Out of CDO. For any level you need this (NT simple mail, Exchange server programming, Outlook programming, etc.), you will most probably find the answer in this book.
You could almost re-create Outlook Web Access (OWA) with this book!
I also have the Professional Outlook 2000 book and the Professional CDO is a great match with the first.
Bottom line: Very complete.
Rating: - Excellent CDO Programming Guide
Professional CDO Programming is an excellent guide to Microsoft's latest messaging API. CDO provides a simpler interface to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server that was previously provided by MAPI. CDO actually rides on top of MAPI and provides an object oriented interface that is usable from Visual Basic, C++, and ASP.
This book includes a History of CDO, along with links to find the latest CDO files on Microsoft's Web Page. Also included is documentation regarding newer versions of ... Read More
- Only somewhat useful
- Doesn't cover CDO 2000!
- Become an Expert in CDO from scratch
