Office Addin

[carl_mathews200]

I am in the process of creating an addin for Microsoft Office which will be used to send certain information (when the user chooses to) back to my .net application.

How would i go about sending this information back to my application regardless if it is running or not? The information will be a very simple string, nothing more.

Is this possible? And can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[alextyx]

I'm not sure to have understood well. I assume that sending information to your app. doesn't mean to run it automatically if it's not running. In this simpler case, you can store your info on a text file that your app. will open, later, as soon as it will run, I think. In case your app. was running you have a lot of choices. You can use a timer to test if the text file exists, or you can use some instruments, that I don't know well, that permit you to be informed when something is changing, for example, in a specified folder. Perhaps you could receive this info as an event, so you don't need to poll, but I'm not sure about this!
Good job!

[carl_mathews200]

The idea was to somehow pass back the string in some format directly to the application, if it is running, to somehow intercept the data and if it was not running to open the application and then act on the information passed.

Perhaps it is not possible to do it this way?