Re: discover installed version of Outlook Express?

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From: Bob O`Bob (filterbob_at_yahoogroups.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:20:56 -0800

Jim Edgar wrote:

> "Bob O`Bob" <filterbob@yahoogroups.com> wrote in message
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>
>>Before I add confusion with the whys and wherefores
>>(manipulating OE at runtime is such an *incredible* headache)...
>>
>>does anyone know a reasonable way, from within a VB6 app,
>>to determine which version of OE is installed?
>>
>>For what I need, it can safely be assumed that
>>[major version 5 or higher of] OE _is_ installed.

>
> Here's a few routines I use to get file versions. Hope they help (watch for line
> wrapping);

Thanks. I've got stuff like that.
Don't know if I can safely assume where OE is installed, though.
We invoke it by passing a .eml filepath to shell(), and then drive it
with a bunch of arcane FindWindow and SendMessage code.

It's as if we're "pretending" it supports automation...

        Bob 

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