"The parameter is incorrect" exception

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"The parameter is incorrect" exception
How get rid of "The parameter is incorrect" exception. 
Ivan Pankov




Posts: 1
 Joined: 2007-04-11
Hallo!


I have an ASP.NET web project and I have a trouble using OutlookSecurityManager there. Here is a code: 


        ' Create Outlook application instance
        Dim OutlookApplication As New Outlook.ApplicationClass

        ' Get outlook namespace
        Dim OutlookNamespace As Outlook.NameSpaceClass = OutlookApplication.GetNamespace("MAPI")

        ' Turn off security warnings
        Dim OutlookSecurityManager As New AddInExpress.OutlookSecurityManagerClass

        ' Connect security manager to outlook application
        OutlookSecurityManager.ConnectTo(OutlookApplication)

        ' Disable warnings
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableOOMWarnings = True
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableCDOWarnings = True
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableSMAPIWarnings = True

        ' Some Outlook processing code goes here...

        ' Enable warnings back
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableOOMWarnings = False
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableCDOWarnings = False
        OutlookSecurityManager.DisableSMAPIWarnings = False


"The parameter is incorrect" exception is throwed on this line: 
OutlookSecurityManager.ConnectTo(OutlookApplication)


Absolutely the same code works fine on the same computer in my other windows project. For web application I have:

<authentication mode="Windows"/>
<identity impersonate="true"/>

in web.config. Also I tried to use/not use Visual Studio debugger and tried to build in debug/release modes. It does not affect this exception. I tried to comment the line which throws an exception, but in this case the other line throws another exception (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException "Unspecified error"): 
OutlookSecurityManager.DisableSMAPIWarnings = True


And without DisableSMAPIWarnings = True I get Outlook security warnings, so I have to have this one turned off.

How can I make 
OutlookSecurityManager.ConnectTo(OutlookApplication)
line working?


Thanks!
Posted 11 Apr, 2007 13:09:07 Top
Sergey Grischenko


Add-in Express team


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

The fact is that the Outlook Object Model doesn't work correctly in ASP.NET applications.
I think the problem is caused by to some security settings.
I would advise you to use CDO or Simple MAPI in ASP.NET applications.
Also please read the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q257757


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Posted 12 Apr, 2007 08:56:35 Top