Applications can utilize Exchange's features or extend them using tighter integration. The new addition to Microsoft Office is the e-mail client and personal organizer, Outlook. Outlook has a custom form designer and a Visual Basic Script to build applications. The form designer allows one to create or tailor custom forms. Custom forms are tied to specific folders for custom display of information.
Folders generally contain like types of information.
For example, a folder may contain calendar records or to-do tasks. The interesting thing about Outlook forms is that they can be designed visually and implemented without ever writing code. If the application requires more complex logic, Outlook allows coding in a Visual Basic Script language using Outlook objects. Outlook objects let the programmer access Exchange messages, folders and their properties. Note that the version shipped with Microsoft Office is Outlook 8.01.