How to open Outlook's new mail window with prepopulated attachment

Question

I need to open a new email window with a prepopulated attachment when a user clicks some button or link in my application.

Answer 1

Old question, but I also ran in to this so here's a copy and paste solution:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application oApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem oMsg = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)oApp.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);

oMsg.Subject = "subject something";
oMsg.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
oMsg.HTMLBody = "text body"; //Here comes your body;
oMsg.Attachments.Add("c:/temp/test.txt", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);
oMsg.Display(false); //In order to display it in modal inspector change the argument to true

You'll need to add a reference to the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook component in your project.

Answer 2

you can do it using interop services of outlook

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

 Outlook.MailItem mail = Application.CreateItem(
        Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem) as Outlook.MailItem;
    mail.Subject = "Quarterly Sales Report FY06 Q4";
    Outlook.AddressEntry currentUser =
        Application.Session.CurrentUser.AddressEntry;
    if (currentUser.Type == "EX")
    {
        Outlook.ExchangeUser manager =
            currentUser.GetExchangeUser().GetExchangeUserManager();
        // Add recipient using display name, alias, or smtp address
        mail.Recipients.Add(manager.PrimarySmtpAddress);
        mail.Recipients.ResolveAll();
        mail.Attachments.Add(@"c:\sales reports\fy06q4.xlsx",
            Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue, Type.Missing,
            Type.Missing);
        mail.Send();
    }

Working example can be found here..