Send email through Visual Basic 6.0

[kennedyxpaige]

Hello everybody. I'm wondering how you can make a code on Visual Basic where you click the command button and Outlook Express pops up to a new message.

If anybody has a solution or has an idea that I could test out, please let me know.

Thanks!

[9800GTX problem]

sorry but what code does Visual Basic use exactly? Coz i use VB 6.0 at school and wonder if it has ANY significant purpose to learning it, as in it using the same language as a program that actually DOES something USEFUL.

[dchw_dude]

You need to use the Outlook automation libraries from MS. they can be found here, along with some sample code from MS themselves.

How to automate Outlook by using Visual Basic

From what I understand, these libraries are good for COM extensions for Outlook and Outlook automation. A general format for what will happen is thus:

1) Your VB code will open an instance of outlook in the background
2) Send a command via the interop(in the link above) to open a new message.
3) You type your message and send.
4) Upon exit from new message, automation takes over and closes outlook and saves your data.

Having worked with Outlook and Word interops before, they can be a little buggy if not implemented properly. Unfortunately, thats all I know about this kind of stuff. Wish I could give you some code!

@9800GTX - VB is immensely useful. Great scripting language for us IT folk. And it teaches basic programming concepts as well!