Open Default Email Client with Attachment

[Hanika]

Going on 3 days and I am wodnering if I am just not looking in the right
place. If anyone nows how to do this please please help me.

I am developing a Windows form application using VB.NET 2005. I have a PDF
file that I want to attach to the local default email client and display it
so that the user can enter the rest of the information. Like one would see
using the right-click Send To Mail Recipient.

I tried using MailTo. But the "Attach=" only works with Outlook.

Is there a way to access the Send To Mail Receipient via command line or
..NET apis?
Is there another way to do this??

THANKS!!!
Hanika

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Hanika,

The answer is simple, adding an attachment programmatically is almost only
possible with using Office Outlook and than using the interop or Mapi to
that

A default mailclient has no attachment (as well not without dotNet)

This question is asked in the dotNet newsgroups probably 1001 times.

Cor

"Hanika" <Ha****@discussions.microsoft.comschreef in bericht
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Going on 3 days and I am wodnering if I am just not looking in the right
place. If anyone nows how to do this please please help me.

I am developing a Windows form application using VB.NET 2005. I have a
PDF
file that I want to attach to the local default email client and display
it
so that the user can enter the rest of the information. Like one would
see
using the right-click Send To Mail Recipient.

I tried using MailTo. But the "Attach=" only works with Outlook.

Is there a way to access the Send To Mail Receipient via command line or
.NET apis?
Is there another way to do this??

THANKS!!!
Hanika

[Hanika]

Hello Cor,

Thanks for your message. You are correct, this question has been asked 1001
times but has been answered by few. I found a great sample in code proyect
that I used to do this. My application can open the default mail client with
an attachment. I have tested using the there main windows defaults: Outlook,
Outlook Express and hotmail. I had to use MAPI and interop.

Here is the link to the C# project I used in case anyone is interested:
https://secure.codeproject.com/cs/in...mapidotnet.asp

I converted to VB.NET.

Hanika

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

Hanika,

The answer is simple, adding an attachment programmatically is almost only
possible with using Office Outlook and than using the interop or Mapi to
that

A default mailclient has no attachment (as well not without dotNet)

This question is asked in the dotNet newsgroups probably 1001 times.

Cor

"Hanika" <Ha****@discussions.microsoft.comschreef in bericht
news:1A**********************************@microsof t.com...

Going on 3 days and I am wodnering if I am just not looking in the right
place. If anyone nows how to do this please please help me.

I am developing a Windows form application using VB.NET 2005. I have a
PDF
file that I want to attach to the local default email client and display
it
so that the user can enter the rest of the information. Like one would
see
using the right-click Send To Mail Recipient.

I tried using MailTo. But the "Attach=" only works with Outlook.

Is there a way to access the Send To Mail Receipient via command line or
.NET apis?
Is there another way to do this??

THANKS!!!
Hanika