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asp.netvisual-studio-2010emailoutlook
Nurlan
Nurlan

Reputation: 2960

open outlook window to send email asp.net

I am writing a project in asp.net C# using Visual Studio 2010. I want to write function, which opens outlook window to send email when user clicks a button.

I tried this:

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

Outlook.Application oApp    = new Outlook.Application ();
Outlook._MailItem oMailItem = (Outlook._MailItem)oApp.CreateItem ( Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem );
oMailItem.To    = address;
// body, bcc etc...
oMailItem.Display ( true );

But compiler says there is no namespace Office inside namespace Microsoft. Actually Microsoft Office including Outlook fully installed in my computer.

Should I include Office library to Visual Studio? How the problem can be solved?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 17216

Answers (3)

Dinesh Haraveer
Dinesh Haraveer

Reputation: 1804

Rather you try like this,add using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook; reference

        Application app = new Application();
        NameSpace ns = app.GetNamespace("mapi");
        ns.Logon("Email-Id", "Password", false, true);
        MailItem message = (MailItem)app.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem);
        message.To = "To-Email_ID";
        message.Subject = "A simple test message";
        message.Body = "This is a test. It should work";

        message.Attachments.Add(@"File_Path", Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

        message.Send();
        ns.Logoff();

Upvotes: 1

Amin
Amin

Reputation: 119

this use outlook to send email with recipient, subject, and body preloaded. 

<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]?subject=this is the subject&body=Hi, This is the message body">send outlook email</A>

Upvotes: 3

Emanuele Greco
Emanuele Greco

Reputation: 12731

If you use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, Outlook must be installed on the server (and runs on the server, not on user computer).

Have you tried using SmtpClient?

 System.Net.Mail.MailMessage m = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
        using (m)
        {
            //sender is set in web.config:   <smtp from="my alias &lt;[email protected]&gt;">
            m.To.Add(to);
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cc))
                m.CC.Add(cc);
            m.Subject = subject;
            m.Body = body;
            m.IsBodyHtml = isBodyHtml;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(attachmentName))
                m.Attachments.Add(new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(attachmentFile, attachmentName));

            System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
            try
            { client.Send(m); }
            catch (System.Net.Mail.SmtpException) {/*errors can happen*/ }
        }

Upvotes: 1

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