I think the response you received is referring to the fact that this will do
absolutely nothing for a user because it is on the web server. This is not
going to create an outlook email that the user can do anything with. This is
trying to instantiate an instance of Outlook on the web server itself. The
user would never see this and it wouldn't open an email for the user since
it is not going to happen on the users computer. The best thing you can do
is to create a hyperlink and use the "mailto:" version so that it will open
an email message in the user's default email client.
You can specify one user to send it to as follows:
mailto:b@b.com
The specifications say that you cannot use more than one address to send to,
though a lot of people do this simply by adding comma's between them. This
is not supported though and is not part of the RFC that governs how a URL
should appear so use a comma delimited list with caution. You can add a
subject by placing ?subject= followed by the subject like so:
mailto:b@b.com?subject=Email Integration with Outlook and VB.Net
The subject isn't supported either, but a lot of clients do support it.
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
"KatMagic" <SS********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Because we have a web application where we want our users to click on a
link to open an outlook email and send an email. What other reason would
there be. This is an internal server, not used by anyone other than our
own employess.
"Mark Rae" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.comwrote in message
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>"KatMagic" <SS********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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>>What am I missing?
Well, first things first, why are you trying to instantiate Outlook on a
web server...?