The Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM) contains a few interfaces that allow you to perform sophisticated management of contacts, tasks, and a calendar. For developers who need to implement such customized and collaborative solutions, POOM can make it quick and easy.

Because POOM is supported over a wide range of mobile devices, your applications will be able to work correctly on these PDAs without too many problems. Besides, Pocket Outlook provides a capability to add new menu commands for third-party add-ins.

This article will focus mainly on POOM possibilities rather than external application commands. Add-ins will be discussed in the next article. C# developers can also use POOM, but recently it is harder than in C++.

If you need POOM in managed code, you can either create and call an unmanaged DLL with all the stuff inside or wrap all required APIs by using the DllImport attribute. Another suitable way is to create an interop assembly from the POOM type library and then reference it from you C# application.

Unfortunately, I've failed to find any TLB for POOM on the Web... So, I'll leave it for better times.

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