Bug 56903

Make a LibreOffice connectivity/sdbc driver that does not use the in-tree ancient Mozilla copy.

The easiest would probably just to access it over ADO (like we do for Microsoft Access files). It needs Jet 4.0, which is bundled with some versions of Windows, but not the most recent ones. But there is a redistributable that we can bundle: "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable" http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255

To do that, just take inspiration of our drivers for "Microsoft Access" (.mdb) and "Microsoft Access 2007" (.accdb): they just under the hood rewrite the SDBC URL to the right SDBC-ADO URL, possibly set some parameters, and hand off the connection to the SDBC-ADO driver. This would not need *any* mucking with SQL, ADO/Jet handles it all.

The drives are declared in 
connectiviy/registry/ado/org/openoffice/Office/DataAccess/Drivers.xcu:

    <node oor:name="sdbc:ado:access:PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=*" oor:op="replace">

and

    <node oor:name="sdbc:ado:access:Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;DATA SOURCE=*" oor:op="replace">

See also dbaccess/source/core/misc/dsntypes.cxx function ODsnTypeCollection::extractHostNamePort

Then the SDBC-ADO driver recognises this ":access:" prefix specially:

connectivity/source/drivers/ado/AConnection.cxx function OConnection::construct:

    if ( aDSN.compareToAscii("access:",7) == 0 )

I suggest to introduce an ":outlook:" prefix.


References:
I see several references to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsmart00/html/sa00h12.asp but
it gives me a blank page right now.
Alternative references:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275262
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/192505/Connection-String-for-Outlook-2010
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=3886
http://vbcity.com/forums/t/6878.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa160682%28v=office.11%29.aspx



Another path would be to access Outlook directly over COM/... This would need handling the SQL ourselves, like our mork driver does (connectivity/source/drivers/mork)

There are examples (for VBA) there:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290792
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290658
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/thread/812d1fb3-a997-487e-9c4f-75227521d4b8
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/1cf06a86-2a28-4359-8046-6c5b5a5fd934