Opening outlook mail item blocks operation on Outlook

Question

I have a C# application that sends out email using Microsoft Outlook. The reference added is - Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, Version=11.0.0.0.
Now when the mail item gets opened with a file attached to it - two issues arise :

1. Cannot open the attachment. It opens when this mail item is closed/sent.
2. Cannot perform any operation on both - application and Outlook.

The OS is Vista. Is this an expected behaviour or some issue with our code ?

Answer 1

No replies !!!!! :(

Answer 2

Hello
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Do you see this problem in pre-Vista systems?

Could you post your code snippet to send the email with attachment here?

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Answer 3

Hello

How are you? Do you get any progress in this issue? Could you please check out my last reply?

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Answer 5

Very sorry for the delay. I was stuck with something else.
Well here is the code :
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//Get Outlook object.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlookObj = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

 

if (outlookObj == null)

{

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Outlook.exe");

outlookObj = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();

}

 

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem outlookMailItem = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)outlookObj.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);

 

if (outlookMailItem == null)

{

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Outlook.exe");

outlookMailItem = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)outlookObj.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);

}

 

outlookMailItem.To = "[e-mail]";

 

outlookMailItem.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;

 

outlookMailItem.Attachments.Add(this.errorLogFilePath, (int)Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue, 1, null);

 

outlookMailItem.Display(new object());