CreateObject("Outlook.Application") failing to get outtlook

[Chris Miller]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with this call not returning a valid object

I reference a previous post (that I cant find here again)
http://www.devnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.vba/topic10531.aspx

I believe the cause of this to be setting the default email client in
Internet explorer to something other than outlook.

Is there a (known) way to handle this?

The best I can come up with is checking
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\mailto] in the registry, which gives a
path. This value is set by IE, and checking this value against the registry
keys below


Fisrtly
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Outlook.Application\CurVer]
Then getting the appropriate version i.e. (Outlook.Application.11) -> 11

then
[HKEY_LM\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\InstallRoot]
where 11.0 has been worked out from the previous step

at this point i have two paths that can be compared.

Is there a more elegant solution to this ?


Thanks in advance

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Please don't multipost.

In Outlook 2007, not earlier versions, you can use the
Folder.BeforeItemMove() event and pass back Cancel = True to prevent moving
or deleting items from a folder.