Cindy,
The problem is you don't have the COM classes Lotus developed specifically for this. Notes.NotesSession and Notes.NotesUIWorkspace are older COM classes tied to the Notes UI executables. Lotus.NotesSession was developed so developers could access the Notes engine without the limitations you listed below.

Unless you can get those classes installed, what you want can't be done. Do you have access to the R5 client? Try installing that and see if you get the newer COM classes.

HTH.

>I've got some VB code to send email through Notes. How do I run Notes invisibly and how do I close it when I'm done? Here's my code:

>    Public Sub OpenNotes( _
>        ByVal txtTo As String, _
>        ByVal txtSubject As String, _
>        ByVal txtAttachmentName As String)
>
>        Dim _
>            Session As Object, _
>            Database As Object, _
>            Document As Object, _
>            RichTextObject As Object
>
>        Dim _
>            User As String, _
>            Server As String, _
>            Mailfile As String
>
>        'Get a handle to a notes session
>        Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")
>
>        User = Session.UserName
>        Server = Session.GetEnvironmentString("MailServer", True)
>        Mailfile = Session.GetEnvironmentString("MailFile", True)
>        Database = Session.GetDatabase(Server, Mailfile)
>        Document = Database.CreateDocument()
>
>        With Document
>
>            .Form = "Memo"
>
>            .SendTo = txtTo
>            .Subject = txtSubject
>
>            RichTextItem = .CreateRichTextObject("Body")
>            RichTextItem.EmbedObject(1454, "", txtAttachmentName)  ' EMBED_ATTACHMENT = 1454
>
>            .Send(False)  'SEND(ByVal ATTACHFORM As Integer, [ByVal RECIPIENTS])
>
>        End With
>        Session = Nothing
>        Database = Nothing
>        Document = Nothing
>
>    End Sub