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-D- - 27 Apr 2006 19:46 GMT

Is there a way to create an email button user control that when clicked,
opens a user's email client and populates the to: field with a specified
email address and attaches the document to the email?? Not sure if this was
possible?

Thanks.

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Karl E. Peterson - 27 Apr 2006 20:45 GMT

> Is there a way to create an email button user control that when
> clicked, opens a user's email client and populates the to: field with
> a specified email address and attaches the document to the email??
> Not sure if this was possible?

Yes and no. Depends on the client. Most don't support attachments in that
manner, though Outlook does. What you do is the same as for any other
hyperlink, by calling it with ShellExecute. See
http://vb.mvps.org/samples/HyperJmp for an example, if you're unfamiliar.

So, to do a mail link, it'd be something like:

mailto:sballmer@microsoft.com?subject=Support%20ClassicVB!&cc=bgates@microsoft.com

But, as I said, very few clients will act on the &attachment parameter.

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