How to open a new email, and assign subject, using .NET Compact Framework

Question

Basically I'm trying to accomplish the same thing that "mailto:bgates@microsoft.com" does in Internet Explorer Mobile.

But I want to be able to do it from a managed Windows Mobile application. I don't want to send an email pro grammatically in the background.

I want to be able to create the email in Pocket Outlook and then let the user do the rest.

Hopefully that helps you hopefully help me!

Answer 1

I assume you use C#. You add a reference to System.Diagnostics and then write the following code:

ProcessStartInfo psi = 
  new ProcessStartInfo("mailto:bla@bla.com?subject=MySubject", "");
Process.Start(psi);

This will start the default email client on your mobile device.

The mailto protocol definition might come handy too.

Answer 2

You can also use Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.MessagingApplication.DisplayComposeForm like so:

OutlookSession sess = new OutlookSession();
EmailAccountCollection accounts = sess.EmailAccounts;
//Contains all accounts on the device  
//I'll just choose the first one -- you might want to ask them
MessagingApplication.DisplayComposeForm(accounts[0], 
    "someone@somewhere.com", "The Subject", "The Body");

The DisplayComposeForm method has a lot of overloads with options for attachments and more.