Hi peeps,

I'm working on an Intranet application for our company in ASP.net (3.5), but
we've recently switched to Exchange/Outlook for email and are slowly
discovering all the other featrures.

One of the great things is the Tasks, and we've previously used the Intranet
to remind people to input data regarding a certain training session, after
it's occured.

Naturally, we can see the benefits of firing these reminders into their
Outlook Tasks, rather than them having to log on to the Intranet to see the
reminders.

What I'm looking for is recommendations for a book that will get started on
connecting asp.net with Exchange / Outlook. I know .net pretty well, so it's
jsut the interop side I need to get up to speed on.

Our system uses AD/Exchange 2007/Outlook 2007/.net 3.5, so need something
fairly up to date technology wise.

Any recommendations greatfully received!

Cheers



Dan

Thanks Mark, very helpful!

The clarification about Outlook Interop gives me the direction I need to
look in (i.e. Exchange) which is great.

I'll check out the Exchange groups....



"Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote:

> "musosdev" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0473CFE9-AA12-48E5-85F7-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > What I'm looking for is recommendations for a book that will get started
> > on
> > connecting asp.net with Exchange / Outlook. I know .net pretty well, so
> > it's
> > jsut the Interop side I need to get up to speed on.
>
> Firstly, forget *COMPLETELY* about client-side Interop via ASP.NET. If
> you're thinking that you can instantiate Outlook through a WebForms app in
> the same way as through a WinForms app (e.g. Outlook.Application
> objApplication = Outlook.Application() then you're not going to get very
> far. The whole architecture is designed specifically to prevent exactly this
> sort of interaction, for fairly obvious security reasons. Luckily, the
> latest version of Exchange has a very rich API which means that direct
> interaction with Outlook isn't necessary at all...
>
>
> > Our system uses AD/Exchange 2007/Outlook 2007/.net 3.5, so need something
> > fairly up to date technology wise.
>
> I'd suggest that probably the best place to start is Microsoft themselves:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb124516.aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418726.aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa579890.aspx
>
> And I'd further suggest that you have a look at the exchange newsgroup(s),
> since your question is more specifically relevant there - although you want
> to program Exchange through ASP.NET, the techniques for doing that will be
> essentially identical in any .NET environment, and the folks who help out in
> the Exchange groups will know everything you need to know...
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net
>
>