I don't know of any way to do that. You probably will need to use exception
handling for that, possibly with periodic checks to see if the Outlook
window is still there.

Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
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"Federico Delgado" <FedericoDelgado@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:64CDCFE4-A667-4007-A1C7-F8896A734C97@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am developing some code for outlook right now and the way I am detecting
> the application running is by doing:
>
> Marshal.GetActiveObject("Outlook.Application");
>
> If I get a comexception then outlook is not running. The problem is that
> sometimes this catches a dying outlook instance and the rest of my code
> tries
> to execute against this non existent instance with all kind of errors.
>
> Is there any way to get the current instance and ensure that it was not in
> the middle of a closing process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Federico
09 JunDetect outlook is running (and not shutting down).Federico Delgado
09 Jun\ Re: Detect outlook is running (and not shutting down).Ken Slovak - [MVP - O...
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