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

Use the Process.Start overload that takes a ProcessStartInfo instead so you can set UseShellExecute

var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo()
{
  FileName = "Outlook.exe",
  UseShellExecute = true
};
Process.Start(startInfo);