11Programming Outlook Email

Not many people know it, but Microsoft Outlook also incorporates VBA, so you can create Outlook-based VBA macros and applications. Outlook itself is a big program, so you can imagine that the Outlook object model is huge, with dozens of objects and untold numbers of properties, methods, and events. Space limitations prevent me from examining this model in detail, so this chapter takes you through just those objects related to Outlook’s email features.

Getting Started

Although Outlook has ...

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