All I want to do is have a user click on a link, an image, a button or
anything and have it launch an outlook new mail message window with a
supplied email address.

Something similar to how the HTML anchor tag works when you use
"mailto:"

Is this possible?

I working with a link colum in a DataGridView at the moment, but I'd
assume the functionality would be the same across all controls...

Any ideas would be appreciated.

On 11/12/2006 in message
<(E-Mail Removed)> Quick wrote:

>All I want to do is have a user click on a link, an image, a button or
>anything and have it launch an outlook new mail message window with a
>supplied email address.
>
>Something similar to how the HTML anchor tag works when you use
>"mailto:"
>
>Is this possible?
>
>I working with a link colum in a DataGridView at the moment, but I'd
>assume the functionality would be the same across all controls...
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.

How about this:

public static bool SendEmail(string strEmailAddress)
{
bool blnOK = false;

System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = false;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "mailto:" + strEmailAddress;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
try
{
p.Start();
blnOK = true;
}
catch
{
blnOK = false;
}
return blnOK;
}

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Jeff Gaines
Damerham Hampshire UK