Developers learn how to build innovative messaging,
collaboration, and knowledge management solutions with this
expert guide to Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Server. The first product to feature
Microsoft's new
Web Store technology,
Exchange 2000
provides a rich, state-of-the-art
environment for creating Web-enabled business and workflow
applications. In the first part of the book, developers dig
into Web Store architecture
and schema and explore the technology's leading edge
support for XML and other Internet standards. Subsequent
chapters provide skillful guidance
and practical examples to help programmers get to
work?teaching them how to apply their existing expertise
with Office 2000 and Visual Studio 6 to
this new platform, and extending their knowledge with
timely insights on
Windows 2000. Topics include using
OLE
DB and the ActiveX Data Objects
(ADO) 2.5 Object Model to access the Web store; working
with Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 3.0; extending
applications with Web Store events;
building security into applications with the Windows 2000
security model; building Exchange-based Web forms; using
XML; and developing for
Outlook 2000.
The developer's guide to building powerful server-side
applications with Exchange 2000 and Web Store The
developer's guide to building powerful
server-side applications with Exchange 2000 and Web
Store
Rich in hands-on guidance and instructive code samples,
this book delivers expert, just-in-time information for
using Microsoft's new Web Store
technology
Key Book Benefits:
- Delivers practical insights, instruction, and code
samples to accelerate developer productivity with the new
Web Store technology in Exchange
2000
- Takes developers inside Web store
architecture?demonstrating how it provides easy access to
e-mail, documents, Web pages, and other
business information from a variety of client software and
familiar development tools
- Provides how-to information for building applications
for instant messaging, real-time collaboration,
calendaring, contact management, workflow,
and other business applications using minimal code
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server enables a wide range of
collaborative activities, including group scheduling, team
customer and task lists, document
routing, and discussion groups that are designed to help
knowledge workers become more productive. Exchange 2000
significantly expands the
Exchange infrastructure for collaboration and business
applications through its use of the new Web Store.
The Web Store provides a single point of management and
collaboration for knowledge stored and shared through
e-mail, documents, and
applications. It integrates Web content such as Web pages,
rich storage for documents, extensive messaging and
collaboration services, and
complete application hosting and workflow services.
The Exchange platform has an increasingly strong story for
developers in the enterprise. A few companies, such as ECMS
and MicroEye, are making
progress toward building large scale collaboration
applications on Exchange, and their visible success has
served to validate the potential of the
platform.