Question on sending email from winform app

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BillG - 15 May 2008 07:03 GMT

My clients use Outlook for their email client. I want to add the capability
of sending emails from within my app. Basically I am just going to
programmatically create the email and send it automatically without the user
being aware. Should I do this with VSTO. I have outlook 2007 on my
developer machine which means that I have the ms outlook 12.0 object
library. If I use that to do the email and include the library in my
clickonce deployment will there be any problems if my clients only have
Outlook 2003 in their machines?

Bill

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Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 15 May 2008 13:46 GMT

The rule of thumb is you develop with the earliest version of Outlook you
want to support. So if you're supporting Outlook 2003 and 2007 you develop
on a machine with Outlook 2003 installed.

On Outlook 2007 if the user has an up to date A-V running then by default
you won't get the Outlook object model guard prompts. For Outlook 2003
running a stand-alone program, not a COM addin, you will get the security
prompts when calling Send() unless you use an alternate API such as
Redemption to do the work (www.dimastr.com/redemption).

See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=52 for more information on
the Outlook object model guard.

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> My clients use Outlook for their email client. I want to add the
> capability of sending emails from within my app. Basically I am just
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> Bill

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