AddEmail ActiveX 4.0 has been released

You can download demo version of AddEmail from www.traysoft.com. To upgrade your purchased version of AddEmail, please send your serial number to devtools@traysoft.com.

AddEmail ActiveX 4.0 release adds full 64-bit support for all versions of Windows. Version 4.0 is fully compatible with previous version 3.0. All applications developed with version 3.0 will work with AddEmail ActiveX 4.0 without any modifications.

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 compatibility

AddEmail ActiveX 4.0 is fully compatible with all editions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012, 64-bit (x64) and 32-bit (x86) versions. Version 4.0 includes 2 version of AddEmail ActiveX DLL:

  • AddEmail.dll – 32-bit COM DLL for 32-bit applications or .NET “Any CPU” applications running on 32-bit OS
  • AddEmail64.dll – 64-bit COM DLL for 64-bit applications or .NET “Any CPU” applications running on 64-bit OS

Visual Studio 2017, 2015, 2013 and 2012 support

We added support for all latest versions of Visual Studio. AddEmail ActiveX is now compatible with all Visual Studio versions, from the latest Visual Studio 2017 to the 15-year old Visual Studio .NET 2002. All C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET samples have been updated to .NET 4 and ASP.NET 4. Samples for older versions of .NET framework can be installed separately if needed.

Office 2016, 2013 and 2010 support

Version 4.0 supports all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2016, Office 2013 and Office 2010. We added new samples showing how to send emails from Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. The same VBA code can be used in other Office applications as well.

AddEmail 3.0 has been released

We have released new version 3.0 of AddEmail ActiveX. You can download demo version of AddEmail from www.traysoft.com. To upgrade your purchased AddEmail, please send your serial number to devtools@traysoft.com.

AddEmail ActiveX 3.0 adds several new features and improvements while maintaining complete compatibility with previous versions. Source code written for AddEmail ActiveX 1.x and 2.x should compile and work with AddEmail ActiveX 3.0 without any modifications. Major new features added to version 3.0 are listed below. For more detailed information please refer to the AddEmail Manual.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 compatibility

AddEmail ActiveX 3.0 is fully compatible with all editions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, 64-bit and 32-bit versions. On 64-bit OS please use 32-bit version of regsvr32 to register AddEmail.dll on the computer. Run command prompt as an Administrator and type in:

c:\windows\syswow64\regsvr32 c:\addemail\addemail.dll

(assuming you copied AddEmail.dll to C:\AddEmail\ folder). You should see a message saying that the dll was registered successfully.

Automatic import of HTML with embedded images

With new version your program can automatically create HTML emails with embedded images by importing HTML files from disk. AddEmail imports specified HTML file, adds all images referenced in the HTML as inline attachments and modifies HTML as needed. Please refer to the ImportHTML and SimpleSendHtml topics in AddEmail Manual for more information.

SimpleSendXXX methods allow to specify sender’s and recipients’ names

New version adds support for “First LastName <name@domain.com>” format to SimpleSend, SimpleSendHtml and SimpleSendAttachment methods. Now you can specify names in addition to e-mail addresses for sender and recipients in SimpleSendXXX methods.

Support for Unicode (non-ASCII) attachment names

New version supports Unicode characters in MailAttachment.File and MailAttachment.Name properties. AddEmail will automatically encode attachment name if it has any non-ASCII characters.

ReplyTimeout property

New property has been added to specify how long AddEmail waits for a response from SMTP server before reporting timeout error. Please refer to ReplyTimeout topic for more information.