Ed,

Thanks for that info, but I think I'm going to forget about getting to the Windows Address Book from within my app. I'm using the "mapimail" class I found here on UT to launch an Outlook Express session to compose a new email anyway. I just edited the class code to not require an email address and will let the user select the recipient from within the email message.

Thanks Anyway.

Elgin

>>I would like to have a command button in my application to access the Address Book in Outlook Express. Is there an ActiveX control? How do I do it?
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>OE is not an automation server; if it's available, you'll need to use either MAPI or ADSI to talk to it and extract data. It does not offer an automation model like Outlook does.
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>If all you want to do is launch the OE Windows Address Book with the default Address Book for the user, you can launch WAB, but it is not automatable; you can run it but VFP can't control it directly. On this system (OS is on drive F:), I'd issue the following command:
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>"F:\Program Files\Outlook Express\wab.exe"
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>The path will differ from system to system; it's the command invoked by the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\wab_auto_file\Shell\Open\Command key. You could also just use ShellExecute() to launch the .wab file. If OE is not the default Address Book handler, the key will point to a different application, and if OE is not present, it obviously isn't available. And you can't control it programmatically by itself.