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Title: Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002 (With CD-ROM) by Randy Byrne ISBN: 0735612730 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33
Rating: 1
Summary: Hate to say it... but TERRIBLE was right....
Comment: This is a tired old rehash of a previous book - and even uses the OLD Northwinds samples. You'll find more on Sue Mosher's site slipstick.com.
Sorry - but Save your money....
Rating: 5
Summary: "Terrific" best describes this book
Comment: I decided to write my own review because that book is not Terrible but Terrific. First of all I am not an Outlook-guru, I am a beginner developer and user, I am not really into Outlook and I only wanted to know more about developing a COM Add-In. Yes It's a technical book but It doesn't mean you have to write it the technical way. It's a book for beginners, not for experts, which means that everybody can understand it, common words in common places for everyone. First you're introduced to Outlook development, then the author goes deeper with some case studies. The coding style is quite good and there's no need to complain about "shortcuts" (If x Then instead of If x > 0 Then)... There's no perfect coding style, good explanations and good examples are more important. I don't think that It's such an expensive books, It covers, in 700 pages, all the topics you need to design and develop professional Outlook Add-Ins and Applications. I gave it 5 stars, even if It's not that perfect. Just Buy It!
Rating: 1
Summary: "Terrible" best describes this book
Comment: The following is a list of reasons why you should not read this book:
a) The author uses words such as "granular", "parity", "reconnaitre", and "enigmatically" (see page 422) that only prove that the author possesses a decent vocabulary. Instead, the author should have used more commonplace synonyms for each of these words and kept in mind during the writing process that he was supposed to be writing a technical book - not a novel.
b) The author frequently refers the reader to examine online help to get more information about subjects such as the Outlook object model and VBA that should be covered in depth within the book.
c) If the book were torn apart into two separate halfs and the first half was properly tossed into the nearest garbage, the reader would be getting rid of really basic information that should not have been included in a book that is entitled "Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002."
d) There is redundant coverage of topics in the book word for word.
e) In several examples, the author uses Select...Case statements (see page 369) instead of If...Then statements when less than 3 conditions are being evaluated. In addition, with respect to how he writes the beginning of If statements in several examples, he uses the format of "If x Then" instead of including "> 0" or "= True" to enable his code to be more readable. Similarly, he also omits code in other places when a default property is available.
f) Technical errors (see pages 359, 365, and 375.) Note: since a non-executable file can include ".exe" within its name before its file extension, the author failed to realize this when he wrote the second example on page 375. As a result, the Right function should be used instead of the Instr function in the example.
g) This book is overpriced, since dedication to quality clearly were missing from the author and the editors that worked on this book.
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Title: Microsoft Outlook Programming, Jumpstart for Administrators, Developers, and Power Users by Sue Mosher ISBN: 1555582869 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Outlook Version 2002 Inside Out by Jim Boyce ISBN: 073561282X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 20 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Developing Applications using Outlook 2000, CDO, Exchange, and Visual Basic by Raffaele Piemonte, Scott Jamison ISBN: 0201615754 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Outlook 2000 (The Sams Professional Series) by Gordon Padwick, Ken Slovak ISBN: 0672315491 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange (with CD-ROM) by Thomas Rizzo, Microsoft Press ISBN: 0735610193 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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