How to create a mailto link in windows forms application

.net, email, winforms

Solution

If this is a .NET application then you can use a `LinkLabel` control. Just set the text property to the actual email address and then respond to the `LinkClicked` event handler like this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mailto:" & LinkLabel1.Text);

You'll want to do some sanity checking on the email address and add some error trapping, but that should do the trick.

Problem

I want to know how to create something similar to a `mailto:` link (like on HTML pages) to a Windows Form. So that on clicking it, the users default mail program should open a new blank email with the given email address in the `To:` field.

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