Chapter 1. Welcome to Exchange Web Services

Believe it or not, this is the last chapter that we wrote for the book. We figured that it would be better to write all of the other chapters first so as to know what to introduce rather than introducing one thing and then writing about another.[3] The book that is before you is an exhaustive look at the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services (EWS) application programming interface (API). Throughout this book, we’ve tried to give you an understanding of why the Exchange Web Services development team did things the way they did. You see, developing software is a process. The consumer will typically see the end product as if it magically popped out of thin air. But it didn’t magically appear. There ...

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