Do you need to integrate your 4D applications with Microsoft Outlook? Do your clients and users demand this? Are you struggling with a strategy to do this easily, so you can get back to 4D programming and not have to become a Windows VBA, VBScript or Kernal developer to achieve this? Does it all seem just way too hard? And are you frustrated with Microsoft Outlook Security popups making it impossible for your application to run without user intervention? If any of this is true, read on....

Outlook manages a user's e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, etc. and is an integral part of a user experience with their Windows computer today. Windows users probably spend more time in Outlook than any other application on their computer. After all, its where they go to check their email, their schedule, their address books, etc. If you can integrate with Outlook, you have access to this incredible resource and you'll make your customers VERY HAPPY!

But 4D developers have had a hard time over the years with integrating with Outlook. Past solutions have included using ActiveX/OLE, VBA, VBScript, etc. to do this and learning this level of technology to do a simple creation, for example, of a Calendar entry is overkill.

And attempts to 'simplify' this through XML interfaces wtih Outlook discriminates against users who don't have the most current version of 4D, are NOT running MS Office Professional version (XML integration with MS Office products was only introduced in MS Office 2003 Professional version, and isn't available natively in lesser priced versions, or older versions of MS Office) or simply just don't want to have to dig through XML code, parsing, etc. again just to post a Calendar event.

Then even if you have struggled through this entire maze and gotten some communications between 4D and Outlook going, you then encounter the famous Microsoft Outlook Security Popup whenever your application is trying to connect to Outlook:

Well that's all now changed. Tech Solutions have introduced a simple 4D Plug-in that works from versions 4D 6.5 - 4D 2004, on Windows, that expose all the commands that MS Outlook has (from version 2000 onwards) to 4D applications natively. No need to install anything special, nor register ActiveX components, etc. Its all native and simple to use.

We've exposed the command set that any Windows developer would have access to, right from 4D. This means that the 4D developer can compete with any Windows developer for functions with Outlook without having to pay for any expensive technology or become a Windows kernel, VBA, VBScript or ActiveX developer to achieve it. Outlook4D offers access to all the main areas of Outlook including: Calendar Tasks Contacts Email Notes (coming soon...)

Full support of multiple folders are supported, so that you can create items in specific folders, get lists of items in nominated folders, or get any individual item's properties, all from your 4D application. You can even enumerate folders within folders, move items around from folder to folder, or even create or delete folders. All from within the Outlook4D Plug-in.

Its so simple to do this. Here's an example of 4D code that creates a Contact in your Outlook Contact folder labelled "My Contacts":

There's nothing to it. Think of the application opportunities this opens up. Not only do you get to integrate with your customer's Outlook system, but often expensive to develop and deploy applications such as scheduling, calendaring, etc. can now simply leverage off the existing Outlook calendar that is installed on your user's computer. You don't have to develop the schedule interface, and deal with customer complaints that the schedule in your application doesn't take into consideration their own personal calendar in Outlook. Now just use Outlook for everything, and the problem is solved. And don't worry about developing reminder systems in your application. There's no real point. Not only would a user never see a reminder unless they opened your application, but you can easily create reminder Tasks or Calendar events in Outlook and update them accordingly in your application as you need. Again, your reducing your development time down and dealing with technology that your customers know and love.

Whether you need to make Outlook a part of your application, or build a synchronization solution between your 4D application and Outlook, you'll need Outlook4D to do a professional solution. And for its LOW price, its a no-brainer that this is a plug-in that should be a part of every 4D Windows developer's toolkit.

Outlook4D comes with a great manual and sample application that can get you up and running immediately. Its ready to go immediately.

'No Hassle' License!

4D developer's biggest challenges these days are competing with other developers for work. In our opinion, its just simply wrong to have to pay too much for what other Windows developers get for free. So we are offering a 'no hassle' license to Outlook4D for its developers. You purchase a simple development license and you can deploy this plug-in as much as you want. On as many applications or systems, whether they be single user or 4D Server based systems, as you like. No additional cost. Now that's a deal.

Download the DEMO!

A full trial demo of this software is available for download by clicking the button here. This software will work completely but after 60 minutes of use, it will bring up an annoying 'nag' screen which you have to dismiss for each call to the Outlook4D plug-in. Purchasing a license for the software removes this restriction.

Product Price List

Pricing is inexpensive. There is a per developer fee of $249.00 for the full Outlook4D plug-in for Windows with NO deployment costs. This means you purchase a license per developer in your organization who is going to use the plug-in, and that's it. Nice and simple. Nice and powerful too!

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Outlook 4D is compatible with Microsoft Outlook 2000 and later versions. It is NOT compatible with Office 97, Outlook Express or earlier versions of Outlook.
It is also NOT compatible with Microsoft Entourage for Macintosh.