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Messaging & Collaboration - WAB Property Inspector Tool Sample ("Wab Tool")
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Last Updated: Oct.18,1999


SUMMARY
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The WAB Property Inspector Tool ("wabtool") sample application 
demonstrates how to program to the Internet Explorer Address Book, 
also known as the Windows Address Book (WAB).      


DETAILS
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The sample specifically demonstrates the following: 

- Loading the WAB DLL 
- Getting an instance to IWABObject and IAdrBook 
- Reading the contents of a WAB file 
- Reading the properties of objects in a WAB 
- Modifying properties of objects in a WAB 
- Displaying Details on objects in a WAB 
- Deleting objects in a WAB 
- Creating new objects in a WAB 

When you start the wabtool application, wabtool loads the contents of 
your default WAB and displays them in a dialog. To view the properties 
of any one of the contacts in your WAB, select an entry in the ListView. 
A list of property tags for that entry are displayed in a list box. Selecting 
a property tag in the listbox displays details on that property. If there are 
no entries in your default WAB, you can select some other WAB file or create 
a new entry and view its properties. Wabtool will also allow you to modify 
string-properties on any object displayed from the WAB. 


USAGE
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This sample has been created with Visual C++ 6.0 and MFC. To compile this
sample, its probably easiest to create a new project in Visual C++ 6.0. To
do this, start VC++ 6.0 and open the "wabtool.dsw" file. Make sure to add 
the "Workshop\include" and "Workshop\include\Nt50" directories in your list 
of includedirectories and "Workshop\lib" and "Workshop\lib\Nt50" directories 
in your listof lib directories. If you have MFC correctly installed, you can 
now build the wabtool.exe.
    

BROWSER/PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY
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This sample is supported in Internet Explorer 4 and Internet Explorer 5. 
 

SOURCE FILES
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DlgProp.h
Resource.h
StdAfx.h
wabobject.h
wabtool.h
wabtoolDlg.h
DlgProp.cpp
StdAfx.cpp
wabobject.cpp
wabtool.cpp
wabtoolDlg.cpp
makefile
wabtool.ico
wabtool.mak
wabtool.dsp
wabtool.dsw
wabtool.rc2
wabtool.rc


SEE ALSO
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For more information on Messaging and Collaboration go to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/messaging/default.asp


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