The Frameset Design-Time Control

The Frameset Design-Time Control (DTC), for use within Microsoft® Visual InterDev™, lets you quickly develop Web-based applications based on data from Microsoft® Exchange, including information-store, calendar, and address-book data. The Frameset DTC uses Microsoft® Outlook™ Web Access scripts, but it also lets you design Web pages that are customized to meet your needs. This section describes the features in the Frameset DTC and explains how to use them.

Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 includes a rich Web-based e-mail client known as Microsoft Outlook Web Access. Using Outlook Web Access, users can browse messages in their personal folders or in a public folder. Outlook Web Access also gives users access to their Outlook calendar.

Outlook Web Access is based on Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Server Pages (ASP), and Microsoft® Collaboration Data Objects (CDO). Using the Frameset DTC, you can build your own Web-based applications using the existing Outlook Web Access ASP files.