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This short course intends to get you started with the Notes C and C++ API application development. It's main focus is to set up the compiler and get you going with some simple samples. Most of all; you should be able to get the samples in the toolkits themselves to work!
Why ? Because I feel many aspiring API programmers are hindered by technicalities like setting up the compiler, being able to compile and so on.
Many articles on this subject tend to get too deep, and you have to wade through piles of theoretical subjects before you get to the meat. Sometimes this is exactly what you want, and deep thorough understanding of a subject is never wasted. But other times, you "just want to get started", have something done, or just get a glimpse of the technology presented without diving too deep in theory.
You may have travelled the longs paths of @Formula-language and you may have waded the seas of LotusScript. Sometimes you have that nagging feeling of being framed. The available tools just don't get your project going, and you might have reached a grinding halt.
But hey, maybe there is another way to get around the obstacles ?
Meet the Notes C and C++ APIs ! You might have heard that API development with Notes isn't pretty straight forward, and to a certain extent that is true. But if you stay with the later incarnations of The Notes C++ API, you'll see that the development here isn't much harder than LotusScript! The Notes C API is harder to grasp, but you often don't need to dive that deep! Maybe you'll get along with only rudimentary knowledge of the C API ? This course aims at getting you started!
Time to start!