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This is the scenario & I was able to make 1/2 of it work: Programmatically launch Outlook 365, send an message & quit Outlook; it must exit. The quitting is the problematic part-- it likes to keep running so I'm thinking I'm not releasing the resources fully forcing it to keep running.
Tons of samples to launch & send a simple message & this is not about that. Outlook 365 has to quit.
This works (simplified for this post though & should be accurate enough): Outlook launches, sends, quits---
using ol = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
void Send(string Subject, string EmailBody, string BCC)
{
ol.Application olOutlook = null;
ol.MailItem olMsg = null;
olOutlook = new ol.Application();
olMsg = ( ol.MailItem )olOutlook.CreateItem( ol.OlItemType.olMailItem );
olMsg.BodyFormat = ol.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
olMsg.HTMLBody = EmailBody;
olMsg.Subject = Subject;
olMsg.Importance = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceNormal;
olMsg.BCC = BCC;
olMsg.Send();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olMsg );
olMsg = null;
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook.Session );
olOutlook.Quit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook.Application );
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook );
olOutlook = null;
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
GC.Collect();
Question part 1: Outlook does not quit whenever the EventHandler is subscribed to so the reminders window is suppressed. I'm adding & immediately removing the EventHandler because that's what I've narrowed it down to as the issue for not closing for me. Commenting out the 2 event lines is what's above btw.
using ol = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
void Send(string Subject, string EmailBody, string BCC)
{
ol.Application olOutlook = null;
olOutlook.Reminders.BeforeReminderShow += Reminders_BeforeReminderShow;
olOutlook.Reminders.BeforeReminderShow -= Reminders_BeforeReminderShow;
ol.MailItem olMsg = null;
olOutlook = new ol.Application();
olMsg = ( ol.MailItem )olOutlook.CreateItem( ol.OlItemType.olMailItem );
olMsg.BodyFormat = ol.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
olMsg.HTMLBody = EmailBody;
olMsg.Subject = Subject;
olMsg.Importance = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceNormal;
olMsg.BCC = BCC;
olMsg.Send();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olMsg );
olMsg = null;
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook.Session );
olOutlook.Quit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook.Application );
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject( olOutlook );
olOutlook = null;
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
GC.Collect();
The EventHandler:
private void Reminders_BeforeReminderShow(ref bool Cancel)
{
Cancel = true;
}
Part 2 of this question is where I am right now: Once I add an attachment & send the message, Outlook again does not quit.
What am I missing with releasing these resources? Why is adding & then removing this EventHandler causing issues with quitting Outlook? This is tricky because there are a gazillion "how to send mail" posts but much fewer "how to send mail & quit Outlook" posts.
Also, anything related to killing a task is not being considered because that's a dirty shutdown & will only cause deeper issues with mailboxes etc. over time, so don't post it as a solution.
Thank you
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Are you trying to use this is a service or web app (ASP.NET, MVC, ...)?
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I would be surprised if this has anything to do with your code and resources, I suspect MS have organised Outlook to stay awake despite your .Quit - is there a .Exit?
I often find outlook remains running in the background after closing the app (not using code). So much so that I have to end the task to restart outlook.
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RAH
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Hi, I apologize if a solution for something like this has been posted somewhere in the forums already. I've looked.
I have a large string which will include text such as:
"..just random text 5:43 and more random text 9:25..and even more random text 3:00.."
I'd like to be able to store these times in an array or even just get each as an individual string. I've thought about searching the text for colons and just getting the two characters before and after each. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Thank you Richard. I was able to put a regular expression together which was rather long and ugly but did exactly what I needed. Much appreciated.
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Why is it long? A Regex to extract the times is pretty trivial:
[012]?\d:\d\d would work,or even
\d:\d\d if the time is midnight - ten AM (less one second)
For real accuracy it should be
[012]?\d:[0-5]\d to prevent 15:67 being accepted, but ...
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Ah - you run on Mercury time: no problemo ... one alarm set for October ... 
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That's why I'd probably stick with [012]?\d:\d\d - then post process the Matches collection to eliminate bad times. Much simpler, cleaner and more obvious than the "full on" regex! (And a whole load easier to maintain when the requirement changes)
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Yep. The one I find a perpetual PITA is dotted decimal IPv4 addresses, particularly if you allow for all the corner cases. And as for IPv6, the less said the better.
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Thanks folks, really appreciate the responses.
OriginalGriff wrote: Why is it long? A Regex to extract the times is pretty trivial:
It was long because I am pretty new to regular expressions and really just needed to get it done, rather than work on the most efficient expression. But thanks to you guys, I now have a much more effective way to do it. Since last night I have read up on the topic more and have a better grasp.
Thanks again!
free-pizza
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If you are going to use Regular Expressions - and it's a good idea sometimes - then get a copy of Expresso[^] - it's free, and it examines, tests, and generates Regular expressions.
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Got an odd one I could do with some advice on...
I have a base form all my decendent data entry forms are based on. The base form had some menus defined on it with icons on the various menu options. This means all the child data entry forms have them too. So far so good.
I decided to update the icons on the base form, thinking this change would automatically cascade down to all the child forms but no, they don't. When I open the resources file for each child form, they have a separate copy of the icons.
Why would this be - surely it defeats the whole point of visual inheritance?
Any suggestions on how I can update all the icons on the child forms to match? I can't go through them one by one and manually adjust as I have several hundred forms in the application.
Many thanks.
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Did you do a rebuild? Or just recompile?
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It's really strange - when I create a really simple project with just 2 forms - a parent and inherited child, it behaves correctly.
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OK, I just tried it: A MainForm and a BaseForm from which it derives.
I add a small menu strip to the BaseForm, and assign Image properties to each menu item.
Derive the MainForm from BaseForm, and run it: MainForm has the menus, with the correct icons.
Check the Image for one of the BaseForm menu items, run it again: the menus are there, and are using the new images.
So what am I doing that is different from you?
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Thanks for the response. I don't know. On my simple test it also worked. But on my application that hundred of forms and a quite complex set of base forms it doesn't work. Really at a loss.
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Are you running a single project solution, or are these mixed across assemblies?
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Running across multiple assemblies.
I think I may have got to the bottom it. I created a brand new inherited form from the base form and it behaved correctly. On comparing the designer.cs code of the new form with one of my original (problematic) inherited forms, it looks like a load of extra code has been inserted into the code behind the designers.
For Example:
//
// bsiAdd
//
this.bsiAdd.ImageOptions.Image = ((System.Drawing.Image)(resources.GetObject("bsiAdd.ImageOptions.Image")));
This seems to have also pushed the images into the resx file. If I remove all the bits of code for about 50 menu items then remove the images manually from the resx file then the inheritance seems to work properly.
The only thing I can think of which might have caused this is I put a DevExpress SharedImageCollection onto my main window form and I'm thinking that the nature of this control has perhaps caused this.
Issue I have now is I have to apply my manual fix to several hundred forms!
modified 27-Aug-20 10:07am.
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Intern?
Office Junior?
Someone you can con into it?
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Good idea unfortunately, it gets weirder by the minute. If I apply my fix then open the designer and make any change at all to the design surface of the screen and save it, it puts the code back I deleted and re-adds the images back into the resource file!
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At a guess it is because you are getting the form from a resource file, the above tests are probably just using an inherited form and not a resource object.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
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