autorun outlook from winforms

[jinte]

Hi,

I'm really stuck on this.

Suppose I have an outlook email (Ei0001.eml) that is stored on my C-disk on the location: c:\email\Ei0001.eml .

Suppose that I have a button on my form that when it's clicked should open the specified email (Ei0001 in this case).

How do I have to code this?

Thanks.

[jinte]

I tried the following

imports system.io
 
    Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        Dim filename As String
        Dim FS As FileStream
 
        filename = "C:\Eu0001.eml"
        FS = File.Open(filename, FileMode.Open)
 
    End Sub

But the email isn't opened. I get an error message:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.IOException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

Additional information: The process cannot access the file "C:\Eu1224.eml" because it is being used by another process.


While my outlook express isn't activated. What am i doing wrong??

Jinte

[jinte]

Nobody??

[pax]

Hi.

Try :

Process.Start("C:\Eu0001.eml")

This should open the file in the asociated (spelling... ) program. In this case Outlook

[jinte]

thanks pax,

your suggestion worked.

Jinte

[PT Exorcist]

Originally posted by jinte
I tried the following

imports system.io
 
    Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        Dim filename As String
        Dim FS As FileStream
 
        filename = "C:\Eu0001.eml"
        FS = File.Open(filename, FileMode.Open)
 
    End Sub

But the email isn't opened. I get an error message:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.IOException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

Additional information: The process cannot access the file "C:\Eu1224.eml" because it is being used by another process.


While my outlook express isn't activated. What am i doing wrong??

Jinte

I think it's quite clear that what you're doing that way is OPENING the file as a stream and not EXECUTING it..