Hi,

I have a windows forms application which shows an email address in a
LinkLabel. I want it so that when you click the link it shows your email
client with the To: box completed automatically. Up to now I haven't found
how you launch the email client in this way.

Has anybody else done this?

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"private.php?do=newpm&u=&subject=open
default mail client");
But this solution has a limit of 255 characters.

HTH;
Eric Cadwell
http://www.origincontrols.com

* "R-D-C" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> I have a windows forms application which shows an email address in a
> LinkLabel. I want it so that when you click the link it shows your email
> client with the To: box completed automatically. Up to now I haven't found
> how you launch the email client in this way.

\\\
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
With psi
.FileName = "private.php?do=newpm&u="
.UseShellExecute = True
End With
Process.Start(psi)
///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

Thanks Eric, this works a charm :-D.

I actually used the line...

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"mailto:" + EmailAddressInput.Text);

....in the end where EmailAddressInput is a link label showing the email
address.

It was one of those things that you put in the specification thinking it
will be bread and butter stuff. (As it turned out to be). Took a bit of
finding a solution though.

Thanks again

"Eric Cadwell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"private.php?do=newpm&u=&subject=open
> default mail client");
> But this solution has a limit of 255 characters.
>
> HTH;
> Eric Cadwell
> http://www.origincontrols.com
>
>