Launch Email Client, shell command not wokring );

I want to launch the default mail client and send a message from Vb,
I tried the following code:
Shell "Start.exe mailto:[email protected]", vbHide

and als0

Shell "Start mailto:[email protected]", vbhide

Neither of these work (I am using Windows 2k)

-Chris

Well, the code works. Are you sure that you want the window to be hide?

The code doesn't work in Windows 2000, no command (:
But I have start.exe from Win98 that I will distribute with my program, so that win 2000 users can use the command. The vbHide command makes the dos shell window hide.
Thanks
-Chris

I'm pretty sure that this works with NT, but I don't work on 2000, so I can't be sure this will help. On NT, this will just shell whatever default mail client you happen to have on your system.

Code:

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Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Const SW_NORMAL = 1

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim lret As Long

lret = ShellExecute(0&, "open", "mailto:[email protected]", vbNullChar, vbNullChar, SW_NORMAL)


End Sub

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Does this shell command also work in win98?

yes