copy fields to a new outlook e-mail

[BramVandenbon]

Hi,

I am making a website with the following textfields:

-emailaddresses
-subject
-body

When I click a button the fields should be copied to a new Outlook e-mail.

This is because it's for a firm that does everything with outlook and they request perfect integration. (So, no workarounds)

Anybody any experience or ideas on how to do this ?

Thanks in advance.

[BramVandenbon]

I would just like to add that it should also be able to do attachements.

So I guess that redirecting to a mailto:-hyperlink doesn't do the trick here.

Anybody any suggestions ?

[plenderj]

To do anything complicated on the client-side with applications you'd need an ActiveX control I'd imagine!

[BramVandenbon]

I wrote a small piece of code. It looks like this.

			Outlook.ApplicationClass app = new ApplicationClass();
			Outlook.NameSpace nmsp = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
			Object mail = app.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem);
			Outlook.MailItemClass mymail = (Outlook.MailItemClass)mail;
			mymail.Body = "blablabla";
			mymail.To = "[email protected]";
			mymail.CC = "[email protected]";
			mymail.Display(app);

But I have no idea how to make it work on the client side. Making an activeX-controll in VB6 wouldn't work probably since I can't access the OutlookReference I think.

And ActiveX is dead under .NET isn't it or is it possible to make ActiveX controlls in Visual Studio.NET ?

Or is there a .NET alternative?

[BramVandenbon]

maybe better to continue the discussion here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=332154