How to run Outlook using Process.Start(“outlook.exe”) and get the control back

Question

My C# program needs to launch Office Outlook and get the current \"running outlook application\". In order to do that I\'ve implemented the following simple program (so if you w

Answer 1

This works:

public static void StartOutlookIfNotRunning()
{
    string OutlookFilepath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE";
    if (Process.GetProcessesByName("OUTLOOK").Count() > 0) return;
    Process process = new Process();
    process.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(OutlookFilepath);
    process.Start();
}