Visual Studio 2008 c# app to drag email to a form.. not quite working.

I have this windows form app.. where i have a text box and from outlook i want to be able to drag and drop from outlook to the form and basically copy to this text box the subject and body text...

I thought i almost had this figured out.. here is the code near the end that tries to "find" the outlook (2007) window and find the mail item data:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlook;
                //outlook = (Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application")) as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application;
                try
                {

                    //try to create comm component with vb interaction
                    outlook = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application");
                }
                catch (System.Exception ex)
                {
                    throw new ApplicationException("error" + ex);
                }

//get the active one
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Explorer explorer = outlook.ActiveExplorer();

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem mail = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)explorer.Selection[0];

                //if (mail.Subject = maildata("Betreff").ToString())
                //{
                return mail;

It gets stuck on the line

outlook = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject("", "Outlook.Application");

It will either sit there forever or if i actually put a break on the catch, i am shown "cannot create activex component" as an error...

I'm not sure how else to go about this.. any thoughts?

Thanks

Hi,

This is how I did it

First you need to make the AllowDrop = true;

then I use the following: for dragging and droping from outlook

Thanks John

private void _DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e)

{

e.Effect = DragDropEffects.All;

}

private void _DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)

{

Outlook.ApplicationClass app = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();

Outlook.Selection sel = app.ActiveExplorer().Selection;

foreach (object mitem in sel)

{

try

{

Outlook.ContactItem ci = (Outlook.ContactItem)mitem;

ci.SaveAs(Path.GetTempPath() + ci.FirstName + ".vcf", Outlook.OlSaveAsType.olVCard);

}

catch

{

try

{

Outlook.MailItem mi = (Outlook.MailItem)mitem;

mi.SaveAs(Path.GetTempPath() + mi.Subject.ToString() + ".msg", Outlook.OlSaveAsType.olMSG);

}

catch

{ }

}