Popup Outlook contact makes the WinForm stuck and hold

[manfree]

Hi all I would like to popup an Outlook contact via a Click button. The "Popup action" works fine~ However, after the outlook contact comes up, the WinForm(Form1) seem stuck and hold .... I can't move, minimize and maximize the WinForm ????? Any body know what is the problem in here ?? Thanks

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

namespace testing1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

    private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    private void FindContactEmailByName(string firstName, string lastName)
    {
        Outlook.NameSpace outlookNameSpace = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
        Outlook.MAPIFolder contactsFolder = outlookNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

        Outlook.Items contactItems = contactsFolder.Items;

        try
        {
            Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)contactItems.Find(String.Format("\[FirstName\]='{0}' and " + "\[LastName\]='{1}'", firstName, lastName));
            if (contact != null)
            {
                contact.Display(true);
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("The contact information was not found.");
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
    }

    private void button1\_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        FindContactEmailByName("Tom", "Lee");
    }

}

}

[Shajeel]

contact.Display opens the contact window as a dialog window due to which parent window is stuck. You can call the this function in another thread if you want your parent window to work normally.

Regards Shajeel

[manfree]

WOW!! Thanks for your answer! it works perfect with Threading !!! ~