GetObject

[Heike]

Help!!!!!!!

Until Friday everything worked fine. Today, nothing seems to work.

I'm using GetObject:

Dim objWordInstance As Word.Application
 
    objWordInstance = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

Unfortunately after this objWordInstance is nothing even if I can see, that there is an instance of word. What might be wrong???

[dynamic_sysop]

i put you a reply on dotnetforums.net , but here ya go.
you could try looking for instances of the word process ( WINWORD ) , then dimming the word app as an object when using getobject , then casting it to what it should be. eg:

Dim wordApp As Word.ApplicationClass
        Dim p As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("WINWORD")
        If Not p.Length = 0 Then
            Dim objWord As Object = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
            wordApp = DirectCast(objWord, Word.ApplicationClass)
            '/// word application found and can be manipulated now.
        Else
            '/// no word app found running.
        End If

[Heike]

Sorry, but I don't think, that there would be any difference.

I changed nothing in my source code and since today, it doesn't work.

Maybe, it would work if I declared my variable objWordinstance not as Word.Application but as Object but I really would like to know why it doesn't work any more.

The way I'm trying it, I get an error
"specified cast is not valid".