Trying to Programmatically Create & Open a new Outlook Email

Question

I have a winforms application and I am trying to create a method that will create and open a new Outlook Email. So far I have

private void CreateOutlookEmai         


        

Answer 1

In my experience Office.Interop can be troublesome and simply kicking off Outlook with the appropriate arguments may represent a simpler and more portable option:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\OUTLOOK.EXE", "/c ipm.note /m name@address.com"));

Outlook command line switches give you many more options with numerous sources of info (try http://www.outlook-tips.net/how-to/using-outlook-command-lines)