app to run in the background

[Guest]

i developed an app using C#, this app needs to print using microsoft office
2003 so everytime it prints the office starts up and prints. however i need
the office to start without appearing to the user. any suggestions??

 

[W.G. Ryan MVP]

If you're running it in a form, you can set the ShowInTaskBar to false and I
believe the property on WOrd and Excel Spreadsheets is ScreenUpdating, but
you can just set the Visible property to false as well and that should take
care of it. It will still be visible in the Processes dialog but that's not
apparent unless they are looking for it.