Displaying Database rows from within Outlook?

[JW]

Is is possible to use the Outlook Contacts view to display a list of contacts
from a SQL database without actually copying the data onto the Exchange
server or the users local folders. This would require re-synchronizing tens
of thousands of rows all the time. I would just like to create a connection
directly to the database from the Outlook front end. All of the examples
that I have seen so far show how to copy the contacts or view Exchange data
from within other (db) tools. I don't want to do this. I just want to use
the Outlook front end as the interface to the database directly. Is this
possible?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There are some third-party tools that can display a database as a data store in Outlook, although some may use a .pst file as a proxy. See http://www.outlook-code.com/article.aspx?ID=25

 

[JW]

I don't want to use any third-party tools. I want to program it in-house.
Also, I did not see anything related to this in your "plug".

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Then you would need to do what the third-party developers have done -- design your own custom MAPI store using Extended MAPI and C++ or Delphi (a quite advanced programming task). It's not something you can do with the Outlook object model alone.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

I don't want to use any third-party tools. I want to program it in-house.
Also, I did not see anything related to this in your "plug".

There are some third-party tools that can display a database as a data store in Outlook, although some may use a .pst file as a proxy. See http://www.outlook-code.com/article.aspx?ID=25

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Then you would need to design your own custom MAPI store using Extended MAPI and C++ or Delphi. It's not something you can do with the Outlook object model. MSDN has documentation and samples for Extended MAPI, and the microsoft.public.platformsdk.mapi newsgroup is active for discussing ExMAPI issues..

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


There are some third-party tools that can display a database as a data store in Outlook, although some may use a .pst file as a proxy. See http://www.outlook-code.com/article.aspx?ID=25