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Re: Get hands on a running outlook instance

Dino Chiesa [MSFT]
7/10/2003 11:16:38 AM

dotnet interop:

when I do this:
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();

I get the running instance.
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Get hands on a running outlook instance

Michael Herzog
7/10/2003 4:07:37 PM

Hi,

does someone know how to gain control over an already running instance
of Microsoft Outlook (or Word or Excel or...)?

My application needs to create Outlook mails and appointments. What I want
to
do is to check all running processes for an instance of outlook. If there is
none,
I can create one. No problem´. But how can I turn the found process into a
usable Outlook-COM-object? Or is there any other way to get my hands on
a running outlook instance?

I am using VS.NET2003 and C#.

TIA
Michael Herzog