How to insert a link into email.body in Visual Basic?

[MatrimCauthon]

Hello,

how can one insert a link/shortcut (to a local file) in the email
body?

Do I need to distinguish between HTML, PlainText and RichText ?

For Plaintext and Richtext the following seems to work:

Code:
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objMsg.Body = objMsg.Body & vbCrLf & "<file://" & strFileName & ">"

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Doing this in html mails leads to some strang behaviour, eg multiple
such statements leads to something like this:
<<<file://C:\myfirst.file>>>
<<file://C:\mysecond.file>>
<file://C:\mythird.file> and so on.

Another problem is, when I use the code I mentioned above in plain and
rich text mails, im converting them to html, the links aren't
clickable.

So I guess I'm missing a valid point.

In sum of all this, back to my first question:

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In HTML, you should need add an <a> tag to HTMLBody.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

For files you need a syntax like this:
file://\\FileServer\OurFiles\myfile.doc

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/links.htm#fileshortcuts