Programming Lotus Notes with Visual Basic

Iris Today's reference article Common Ground: COM access to Domino Objects gets you started on the topic. Here are some links from that article:
Getting started in Visual Basic
Initializing a Domino session
Getting started in VBScript
Working through the object hierarchy
Opening and creating databases
Getting item values
Working with constants and error codes
Porting between Visual Basic and LotusScript

Here is a quick intro, some sample code on the topic from Experts Exchange.

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