Hi Greg,

You're looking at the results of a URL protocol handler. See here for more
info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspx

ciao, Richard

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote:

> *Ye I think this whole naked bear wrestling thing is a wonderful idea.
> Perhaps @ the next TechEd or CodeCamp Greg could do something like this. I
> for one would pay good money to see it :)*
>
> ** **
>
> If you double my pay I’ll do it in a pit full of cobras.****
>
> ** **
>
> But seriously, I was just about to post a question asking if there was a
> reasonably reliable of a launching the current user’s email client with an
> open email message (the same way as clicking a mailto:xxx link works).
> Just for the hellovit I did this:****
>
> ** **
>
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mailto:g...@mira.net?subject=Hello
> World&foo=bar");****
>
> ** **
>
> And it works! Lord knows who or what is magically parsing this string, but
> it launches an Outlook new email window with the subject set to "Hello
> World". The keyword "mailto:"; must mean something to someone. So there’s
> some handy news.****
>
> ** **
>
> Greg****
>

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