Newbie? - Response MailTo Tag

[SavantMan]

First off, my experience is primarily with windows apps, so I appologize for the simplicity of this.

This is using v1.1 of the framework:

I've added a button to a aspx page that generates a new email - contents, who it's going to etc. info generated in code.

The entire value of the link is in a string called MailString

I've confirmed the email is opened on the client machine etc. via

Response.Redirect(MailString);

The problem is this is obviously not quite what I want -- this clears the page in the browser. I want to leave the user on the page and just open the new mail message.

Any suggestions?

 

[ca8msm]

Response.Redirect makes the client's browser request another page, so you could redirect them to a mailto link e.g.

Response.Redirect("mailto://ca8msm@aspnetlibrary.co?subject=mysubject&body=mybody")

but they won't remain on the same page. This may be possible to overcome with javascript, otherwise you will have to just create a link on your page and ask the user to click it.


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[SavantMan]

It's already a button within a grid. I'm trapping when the button is clicked and that's when the value of MailString is populated with a syntax that's identical to what you've got in the mailto. I really just need to execute that part in some way other than with a "redirect". I tried just a Response.Write(MailString); followed by Response.Flush(); but that didn't get what I needed either.

 

[ca8msm]

This may be possible to overcome with javascript

You may have to go with this route then.


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