Q:

Will IBM Lotus Notes Application can be accessed through Microsoft Visual Studio ?

I'm creating an utility for checking the application status either working or not. Well I'm having an windows console application in C# .NET which use Lotus Notes Domino dll and Lotus Notes Client Password to access Lotus Notes Application. Is there any other way to access the lotus notes application without any dependency of IBM lotus notes or Its password ?. Please provide me some suggestion or idea to solve this issue

A:

If you want to prove that a Domino server is responding to Lotus Notes client connections, you have to use NRPC (port 1352) to connect to it. The only way to do this is through the Lotus Notes core DLLs, and this requires a Lotus Notes client installation and ID file.  (This is true even if the Domino server is configured to accept anonymous connections.)
If you can live with a lower level of assurance, then you could make a connection via LDAP, HTTP, IIOP or SMTP - presuming that the Domino is configured to run any of those services. This will at least prove that the server is up, but there would still be a small possibility that it is not accepting connections from Notes Clients.
The last thing I want to mention is that just connecting to the server is not enough to prove that the application is fully available. You would at least have to open the NSF file(s) that are associated with the application. 

