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I am not aware of any free third-party controls that you could use. However, this sounds like it could be a VSTO project that integrates into MS Outlook 2007 (or 2003 if you haven't upgraded yet). Then you have the full capabilities of Outlook while still allowing your own custom logic and information. Unfortunately I can only suggest this, I have not worked with VSTO so I would be unable to suggest anything more. Hopefully this leads you in the right direction though. Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog

Have seen sample for using safearrays ? There are quite a few on this site itself. The bold line is having quite a few function calls, try to break it, and narrow down on function , throwing exception.

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What I do is send a (report) file which has a particular extension. When the user installs my software it registers that extension with one of the programs. So when the user (who has already installed my software) clicks on the attachment, Windows runs the appropriate program to open the file to display its contents. Maybe something like that would be better?