How can we fire the db method

[srinivas]

Hi,

We have developed a project in .net. Now our customer is asking
when ever we open a email (that is sent from our application ) we need

to insert a record in a database table. When user reads the email we
need to insert a record in the database.How can we fire the db method
when user reads the email
Thanks,
Srinivas.Meda

[Richard Brown]

srinivas wrote:

Hi,

We have developed a project in .net. Now our customer is asking
when ever we open a email (that is sent from our application ) we need

to insert a record in a database table. When user reads the email we
need to insert a record in the database.How can we fire the db method
when user reads the email
Thanks,
Srinivas.Meda

Assuming your client is running your desktop application? You could
create a com addin for outlook. I don't know how you would do this in
..net but it is easy in vb6 so I should imagine you can find something
akin to it in .net.

Using the addin you can respond to events in the clients outlook, then
call some appropriate code to update the db.

Of course this all assumes your clients only run outlook and no other
mail clients.