Neil,
Rick Strahl published a function IsCOMObject() in FPA last year. It checks in the registry for an entry for the COM Server.
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hi fellow UTers
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>I installed an app at a client site. The app uses automation to gain access to WORD and OUTLOOK. The client did not have WORD installed. I issued oWordDocument=createobject("word.application") in a method and hit the wall. How do you check for the presence of the server before trying to create the object.
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>Thanx
>Neil
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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