Hi Everyone,
I need to modify my wife's outlook 2000 to allow her to save orders and then
automate the appropriate followup based on order type and status, freq,
etc...
My question is am I better off using a database for storing each contact's
order info or is this easily accomplished within the outlook object model?
For the record, I'm a very experienced programmer (C#, .NET Client-Server,
etc...), I'm just fairly ignorant of the outlook model.
I have already written a module (that we use) to generate followup emails
for the orders that we receive I just need to be able to do more complex
data manipulation and create one to many contact to order relationships.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Sep 2005 14:35 GMT
In a sense, Outlook *is* a database. If you're new to Outlook programming, you might want to look at some of the material at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm to get the hang of things.

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Michael Bauer - 06 Sep 2005 07:14 GMT
Am Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:54:04 -0700 schrieb brad:
In addition to Sue, as OL is no relational database and assuming that your
system will grow, I´d prefer a database like Access. For a client-server
system with more users it might be interesting to use the SQL Server instead
(or the free MSDE).
Sue has also a lot of samples for working with databases at:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm

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