Thursday, November 14, 2013

Messaging integration with Outlook via CDO.DLL



Prior to Outlook 2007, Collaboration Data Objects CDO.dll was used to enable apps to utilise the outlook client for messaging.  Starting with Outlook 2007 MS begain to change the model for external apps usage of outlook client messaging.  This article give more details about the situation.  Ultimately these messaging access methods are no longer supported and should be redesigned by developers.