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Email notification through outlook using vb.Net

I am working on a windows application using vb.Net.I need to send an E-Mail to the Admin when a form is submitted and send the confirmation back to the user when that is approved.I searched online for the code...got a couple of simple codes...but they are not using outlook....

any code would be greatly appreciated.

Rob Siklos

You need to use the windows MAPI interface. This will allow you to send mail using the default e-mail client of the computer on which your program is running.

This might be a good starting point: http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Uploadfile/vkulkarni/MAPIcontrolToSendMail04252005015911AM/MAPIcontrolToSendMail.aspx

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Éric Moreau

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Rob Siklos

emoreau: sometimes it is preferable to use outlook, since the e-mail will be sent as the actual user, and will appear in their sent mail folder.

Éric Moreau

you can use the mailto protocol but then you are not allowed to add an attachement and you are limited in the lenght of the message.

yuvaratna

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I dont want the user to enter subject,EMail....i wan the to notify the administrtor that a form has been submitted by so and so person....
can i do that with the above code!

Éric Moreau

you can also use Outlook Automation (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313803) but you will get a warning from Outlook that an application is trying to send something

Éric Moreau

you can automate the mailto protocol in an application (you can launch it automatically using Process.Start) and fill in all the arguments (to, subject, body).

Rob Siklos

If you don't care about putting the e-mail in the user's "Sent Items" folder in outlook, then emoreau is right - there's no need to use Outlook at all - just use the stuff in System.Net.Mail

yuvaratna

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i tried using this..but it throws an errortype outlook._application is not defined...

Sub Main()
        ' Create an Outlook application.
        Dim oApp As Outlook._Application
        oApp = New Outlook.Application()
 
        ' Create a new MailItem.
        Dim oMsg As Outlook._MailItem
        oMsg = oApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem)
        oMsg.Subject = "Send Attachment Using OOM in Visual Basic .NET"
        oMsg.Body = "Hello World" & vbCr & vbCr
 
        ' TODO: Replace with a valid e-mail address.
        oMsg.To = "user@example.com"
 
        ' Add an attachment
        ' TODO: Replace with a valid attachment path.
        Dim sSource As String = "C:\Temp\Hello.txt"
        ' TODO: Replace with attachment name
        Dim sDisplayName As String = "Hello.txt"
 
        Dim sBodyLen As String = oMsg.Body.Length
        Dim oAttachs As Outlook.Attachments = oMsg.Attachments
        Dim oAttach As Outlook.Attachment
        oAttach = oAttachs.Add(sSource, , sBodyLen + 1, sDisplayName)
 
        ' Send
        oMsg.Send()
 
        ' Clean up
        oApp = Nothing
        oMsg = Nothing
        oAttach = Nothing
        oAttachs = Nothing
    End Sub

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Éric Moreau

have you added a reference to Outlook?

yuvaratna

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Hi emoreau, i tried the code you gave ..which is on your website...it workd...perfect...i need to put the code in the submit buttons click event.....because i dont want the user to enter the fields...i wanted to e mail the administrator that so and so person has registered, and send cc to the users mail adress.

yuvaratna

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i dont need the mail to be in the users sent folder, so i decided to go with this approach....

Éric Moreau

you don't need to have the user to enter anything if you don't want to. Just fill all the required properties like I do in the FillBaseMessage method