send in outlook

Question

I have seen a lot of examples to create outlook messages like:

Dim RebexMessage As New MailMessage
RebexMessage.Subject = "Subject"
RebexMessage.BodyHtml = "Body"
RebexMessage.Save("D:\rebexmail.msg", MailFormat.OutlookMsg)

But what i would like to know how to open and send this in outlook? open and save in outlook would be ok too?

Do you have an example or a link?

Thx

Answer 1

To open a .msg file in Outlook, simply browse to the drive and folder where it's stored (D:\ in this case) and double-click the .msg file.

Alernatively, you can drag&drop the .msg file into a folder in Outlook.

For some strange reason, Outlook's File->Open menu lacks the ability to open .msg files, but the two methods above should work fine.

Update: To open the .msg file i Outlook programatically, try this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("D:\rebexmail.msg")

This is equivalent to double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer (which means it opens the file with an associated application, which for .MSG files happens to be Outlook)

Answer 2

Thank you for your answer. For a user double clicking is clear but what I would like to know is "how to do this from code?"

Google is not my friend in this :) as I can't find a good example and to know which interop file I need for office xp or office 2010.

Comments

For opening the file, you don't even need any Office interop file - I updated my answer above.

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I'm afraid you would need it if you wanted to programatically send the messages using Outlook as well. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff869601.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/15s06t57.aspx , but this is outside the scope of Rebex support, unfortunately.

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The second link is not working. Sorry.

I want to open the msg file in the running version of the user's outlook. Then do some extra actions to the email to make it useable for sending.

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Just fixed the link, sorry! System.Diagnostics.Process.Start should actually open the file in the running version of user's Outlook (or launch a new instance if not running).

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Thanks, didn't notice the comma :)

If I use the process.start then after this I can't do extra actions with the email.. because I don't have any reference to it.

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I know :-(

If you can't do those extra actions with the email before calling Process.Start, then Outlook Interop would indeed be your only option, as far as I know.