How to launching email client on LinkButton click event?

Question

How can I launch an Outlook email window (similar to what mailto: does in a hyperlink) ?

This needs to be done in a LinkButton click event.

Answer 1

I've accomplished this using the OnClientClick event of the LinkButton.

You can use:

You can also do this in code, in case you need to load an email address from a database or something:

btnEmail.OnClientClick = "window.location.href = 'mailto:someone@something.com?subject=Email Subject';";