This is one of the more interesting example applications that I've developed for Corda Technologies. This is an example "online dashboard" that integrates into Microsoft Outlook. It puts graphs, maps, and gauges of anything from company-wide sales, to your open tasks, right on your Outlook Today screen.

I bulit the example using ASPs to interface with server-side databases (in this case, an Access database via ODBC), and client-side VBScript to interface with the Outlook API. With a few modifications this could easily hook up to an exchange server, but for demonstration purposes it makes more sense to do things on the client-side.

You can find out more about it, as well as download it's code, from http://www.corda.com/examples/go/cordaoutlook/frameset.asp.

Update (Jan 16th, 2003): As I've been looking at my logs since this page was spidered by Google last week, I've been shocked by the number of people coming to this site searching for this or similar applications. Several people have even inquired about custom Outlook programming jobs. So I thought I'd just make it known that I am perfectly willing to take on contracts for customized Outlook programming jobs. Just send the specs to customoutlookjobs@karlrees.com and I'll get back to you with a quote.

Hopefully, within the next month or so, I'll get some time to put up a website advertising this service.