Creating a Background Worker Thread

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Creating a Background Worker Thread
 
Jim Albert




Posts: 21
 Joined: 2005-12-31
I am using version 2.8 of the Add-in-express to create an Outlook COM addin. I have some processing that I would like to do in the background. The problem that I am having is that if I create a thread to do the processing, outlook will no longer shutdown.

Here is basically what I have tried to do...

private void AddinModule_AddinStartupComplete(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread(
new System.Threading.ThreadStart(InitThreadFunction));
t.Name = "Init Thread";
t.Start();
}

public void InitThreadFunction() {
bool offline = HostApplication.Session.Offline;
}

As soon as I add the access to the Session object, Outlook will no longer shutdown. I have tried to add calls to the ReleaseComObject, but it does not seem to help.

Thanks
Jim
Posted 26 Feb, 2007 15:45:56 Top
Sergey Grischenko


Add-in Express team


Posts: 7233
 Joined: 2004-07-05
Hi Jim.

To solve the issue you need to store the session object in a local variable of the addinmodule.
E.g.

private Outlook.Namespace sessionObj;

private void AddinModule_AddinInitialize(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
sessionObj = HostApplication.Session;
}


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Posted 27 Feb, 2007 07:48:28 Top