Article - CS356444

Accessing Office(Word/Excel) programmatically throws ".... Unable to start System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ... The message filter indicated that the application is busy in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 07-Feb-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 12.1
  • Desktop Integration (DTI)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Description

  • Accessing Excel programmatically throws .... Unable to start System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ... The message filter indicated that the application is busy:
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  • Opening the Excel file using some third party application throwing the error. 
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