We're in the process of 'minimally-integrating' Outlook into a development project.

Through ActiveX and OLE Automation, it is rather easy to create an Outlook Application, to access its data/items, to send messages, etc.

It also is easy to display the Outlook Explorer (maximizing or giving focus back to the Outlook window) through the Display function .... IF Outlook is already running in the background.

Is there a relatively straight-forward way of actually INSTANTIATING Outlook (running the program) from VFP, without using ! / RUN and hardcoding a path (since Outlook may not be in the same directory on each of our clients' computers)?

Thanks so much! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Jared M Anderson
Interactive Data Systems, Inc.
janderson@idevgroup.com
rainman@lynchburg.net