Book excerpt: Exploit powerfully enhanced programmability in Office XP with authoritative information -- straight from the Microsoft Office development team. This hardcore programming reference comes packed with practical, roll-up-your-sleeves resources to help you maximize your productivity with development tools for Microsoft Office, including the Microsoft Visual Basic "RM" 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ "RM" development systems. This guide includes coverage of Workflow Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server "TM" and Microsoft Exchange, offering both design and coding examples, plus API-level coding examples. It also covers enhanced support in Microsoft Office XP for Web-enabled information sharing and XML. Use this incisive coverage to build on what you know and to accomplish everything from automating individual tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications. Each chapter presents dozens of code examples that illustrate the discussion. And the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now -- helping you to focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than on building rudimentary code. It's everything you need to create better business solutions, faster!