Programming Applications for Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007

Chapter 13. Creating Form Regions

In this chapter, you’ll find a high-level introduction to the form region design experience and then a deep dive into creating a custom form solution using form regions in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Form regions provide a custom user interface mechanism that allows you to extend built-in forms in multiple ways or completely replace a built-in form with your own custom interface. Through this deep dive, we’ll cover the following:

• Form region scenarios

• Designing a form region with Outlook

• Programming a form region from an add-in

To facilitate our discussion, most of the scenarios and concepts explained in this chapter revolve around the travel agency sample code available on the book’s companion Web site. However, ...