Outlook and CreateProcess issues, Cause Big Headache

[stefan.sedich]

Hi im trying to open a saved email in outlook, im using createprocess,
to open outlook and pass the saved email as an argument, my problem is,
im trying to wait until the process ends so my program knows outlook
has closed, trouble is if outlook is fully closed down it will work,
but if outlook is already opeend it wont. What can i do to get this
working, ive tried everything i can think of, getting the processid and
searching for it, looking for a window, and even using
Diagnostics.Process class to start it and nothing seems to work.

What can i do, if someone can please help me.

Thanks

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Outlook is designed as a COM autmation server, use it as such.

Willy.

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| Hi im trying to open a saved email in outlook, im using createprocess,
| to open outlook and pass the saved email as an argument, my problem is,
| im trying to wait until the process ends so my program knows outlook
| has closed, trouble is if outlook is fully closed down it will work,
| but if outlook is already opeend it wont. What can i do to get this
| working, ive tried everything i can think of, getting the processid and
| searching for it, looking for a window, and even using
| Diagnostics.Process class to start it and nothing seems to work.
|
| What can i do, if someone can please help me.
|
| Thanks
|

[steve]

Have a look at System.Diagnostics.Process as an alternative

-- Steve

"st***********@gmail.com" wrote:

Hi im trying to open a saved email in outlook, im using createprocess,
to open outlook and pass the saved email as an argument, my problem is,
im trying to wait until the process ends so my program knows outlook
has closed, trouble is if outlook is fully closed down it will work,
but if outlook is already opeend it wont. What can i do to get this
working, ive tried everything i can think of, getting the processid and
searching for it, looking for a window, and even using
Diagnostics.Process class to start it and nothing seems to work.

What can i do, if someone can please help me.

Thanks

[stefan.sedich]

Yeh ive tried that buddy, doesnt seem to work, it works for all
applications but outlook, so is there anything i can do to do this? im
basically creating a document management system, i need the ability to
open a document, and i need to know when its closed so i can check it
back in. But outlook doenst seem to work for this purpose.

steve wrote:

Have a look at System.Diagnostics.Process as an alternative

-- Steve

"st***********@gmail.com" wrote:

Hi im trying to open a saved email in outlook, im using createprocess,
to open outlook and pass the saved email as an argument, my problem is,
im trying to wait until the process ends so my program knows outlook
has closed, trouble is if outlook is fully closed down it will work,
but if outlook is already opeend it wont. What can i do to get this
working, ive tried everything i can think of, getting the processid and
searching for it, looking for a window, and even using
Diagnostics.Process class to start it and nothing seems to work.

What can i do, if someone can please help me.

Thanks