I have this windows form app.. where i have a text box and from outlook i want to be able to drag and drop from outlook to the form and basically copy to this text box the subject and body text...
I thought i almost had this figured out.. here is the code near the end that tries to "find" the outlook (2007) window and find the mail item data:
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlook;
//outlook = (Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application")) as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application;
try
{
//try to create comm component with vb interaction
outlook = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application");
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
throw new ApplicationException("error" + ex);
}
//get the active one
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Explorer explorer = outlook.ActiveExplorer();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem mail = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)explorer.Selection[0];
//if (mail.Subject = maildata("Betreff").ToString())
//{
return mail;
It gets stuck on the line
outlook = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application");
It will either sit there forever or if i actually put a break on the catch, i am shown "cannot create activex component" as an error...
I'm not sure how else to go about this.. any thoughts?
Thanks