Opening Outlook - Sending an email

[venerable bede]

When the user clicks on an image I would like the application to open up outlook with our email address in the .To box.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

[darian1271]

Try creating a link and using the address of:

mailto:[email protected]

[venerable bede]

It's a windows application.

[mralston]

Heh, heh. Had me puzzled for a while too. I knew I'd seen a property of the hyperlink control that told it where to go, but I couldn't for the life of me find it. Then it dawned on me that it must only be for Web Forms.

Anyway, enough ranting. Will this do ya?

Dim oProcess As New Process()
oProcess.Start("mailto:[email protected]")

You can all the usual other stuff at the end of the link too, like ?subject=...&body=...

[Athley]

You actually dont have to instantiate the object ....

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mailto:[email protected]")

...is enough

[mralston]

Fair 'nuff.