How to Determine if an Instance of Microsoft Excel is Running?

[Chopper77]

Hello,

In LabWindows/CVI, I need to determine if one or more instances of Microsoft Excel are running.  Can anybody point me to a CVI function that would do the job?

Thanks,

Chopper77

[RobertoBozzolo]

I suppose the easiest wat is to try to connect to it: you could use the ActiveX command Excel_ActiveApp (you'll need to load Excel2000.fl instrument driver to use it) and see if it returns an error.

[cdk52]

Hi Chopper77.

If you have the Windows SDK installed, you could adapt this code from MSDN to do the job.