Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming

Chapter 21. Deploying and Managing Outlook Forms

By now, you may have quite a few Outlook forms that you’re eager to put into action, and perhaps even share them with other people. But before you start depending on those forms in your daily work, it’s important to understand the architecture behind Outlook custom forms, so that you can anticipate and (hopefully) avoid potential problems.

Four specific architectural issues deserve special attention. We need to consider how Outlook decides which form to display for a certain message class, given that there are three different types of form libraries, plus the new form regions in Outlook 2007. Second, unexpected and unwanted effects occur in situations where the form becomes part of the data item, ...