From: Dee Earley on
On 10/05/2010 13:42, David Kerber wrote:
> In article<OOT$fRt7KHA.2292(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
> GS(a)discussions.microsoft.com says...
>
>> Otherwise, I can't imagine why anyone would want to manipulate a user's
>> mail app beyond preparing a message and displaying its UI to the user.
>> If I need my app to email info to myself there's other ways I can
>> handle it without invoking the user's mail app (or server).
>
> I'm the OP, and I agree with this when it comes to mail, but what I need
> to get to is the Exchange public folders from a VB6 app. The only way
> I've found is through various outlook automation libs.
>
> If there is another way of connecting to Exchange (and getting to public
> folders) without using any piece of outlook that would be far better,
> because it would allow us to use my app on machines that don't have
> outlook on them.

I've not had any problems with apps that run through any folders (public
or not) while I'm using Outlook.
I never shut it down though, but I suppose it may depend on what you and
the app are doing.

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From: David Kerber on
In article <uXaNshE8KHA.980(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
mDotByerley(a)VerizonDottieNettie says...
>
> "David Kerber" <ns_dkerber(a)ns_warrenrogersassociates.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2651c93789bdf4bb989700(a)news.onecommunications.net...
> > In article <OOT$fRt7KHA.2292(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
> > GS(a)discussions.microsoft.com says...
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> >> Otherwise, I can't imagine why anyone would want to manipulate a user's
> >> mail app beyond preparing a message and displaying its UI to the user.
> >> If I need my app to email info to myself there's other ways I can
> >> handle it without invoking the user's mail app (or server).
> >
> > I'm the OP, and I agree with this when it comes to mail, but what I need
> > to get to is the Exchange public folders from a VB6 app. The only way
> > I've found is through various outlook automation libs.
> >
> > If there is another way of connecting to Exchange (and getting to public
> > folders) without using any piece of outlook that would be far better,
> > because it would allow us to use my app on machines that don't have
> > outlook on them.
>
> There is a fair amount of stuff out there using CDO to get to the Public
> Folders...
>
> If this wraps, unwrap it....
>
> <:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Exchange+CDO+&as_epq=public+folders&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images>

Got it going with CDO; thanks!

D