.net - How to send email using default email client?

Question

I want to send an email from a .net windows forms application using the system's default email client (thunderbird, outlook, etc.). I'd like to preset the subject and body text -- I think there's a way to do this by sending something like this to windows explorer: "mailto:test@example.invalid?subject=mysubject&body=mymessage". Do you have any examples on this?

Answer 1

Try this:

    System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
    proc.StartInfo.FileName = "mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=hello&body=love my body";
    proc.Start();