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Reg - 26 Feb 2006 00:42 GMT

When called by another app via ShellExecute do Outlook and OE return a value
when the email is despatched?
If so how does the calling app retrieve that value?
Thanks to anyone who can provide me with this information.
R

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 26 Feb 2006 09:30 GMT

I'm not 100% sure but I'd say no since ShellExecute typically only returns a
value once upon termination of the called application.

> When called by another app via ShellExecute do Outlook and OE return a
> value
> when the email is despatched?
> If so how does the calling app retrieve that value?
> Thanks to anyone who can provide me with this information.

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Reg - 26 Feb 2006 20:20 GMT

Thanks Vince. That is helpful. I had been thinking that ShellExecute
returned a value when it launched the application successfully.

> I'm not 100% sure but I'd say no since ShellExecute typically only returns
> a value once upon termination of the called application.
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>> If so how does the calling app retrieve that value?
>> Thanks to anyone who can provide me with this information.

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Feb 2006 11:24 GMT

I think you can tell ShellExecute to wait until the app exits. At least you
can in some implementations.

> Thanks Vince. That is helpful. I had been thinking that ShellExecute
> returned a value when it launched the application successfully.

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