Problem In emailing a dynamic ASPX page in ASP.NET

gmk51080 · November 11th, 2004, 02:43 PM

I'm working on an application that contains an HTML page with empty labels.
those labels are filled on runtime according to a query in am SQLServer stored procedure.
the stored procedure has a parameter which is the document number and the page is filled according to this parameter.

how can isend this page a html email
my function is just sending the labels empty.
thank You

Georges M. Kaddoum

Imar · November 11th, 2004, 02:54 PM

Hi there,

You can send your controls to a String Writer, then convert that to a string, and set that string as the body for your e-mail. The following code shows how to do that with a DataSet:

Code:

Dim myStringWriter As New System.IO.StringWriter
Dim myHtmlWriter As New System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(myStringWriter)
Dim myDataGrid As New DataGrid
myDataGrid.DataSource = WhatEverItIsYouWantToBindTo
myDataGrid.DataBind()
myDataGrid.RenderControl(myHtmlWriter)

MyMailMessage.Body = myStringWriter.ToString()

You can do the same with other controls, as RenderControl is defined in the base class Control.

HtH,

Imar
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gmk51080 · November 16th, 2004, 03:47 AM

thank you very much
my problem has been solved using the code you provided me.

Georges M. Kaddoum

gmk51080 · February 14th, 2005, 05:40 AM

While working with this solutoin i faced a problem concerning "TEXTBOXES" i could not transform it to a stringwriter.
is there anyway to send the textbox and the data insde it as e-mail?

Otherwise is there anyway to control the data format in a datagrid column?
Please check the following POST:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25827

Georges M. Kaddoum

Imar · February 15th, 2005, 03:06 AM

I don't think there's a need for the control to be "rendered". All you need to di is just ask for its Text property which returns a string that you can append to the mail body.

Or is that not enough?

Imar
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gmk51080 · February 17th, 2005, 05:34 AM

Well for the issue of textbox it could be enough but how can i handle the format of the data wthin a cell in the datagrid. All data is being retrieved from SQL server as merged data i want it to take the same format that has been saved.
In HTML we use the <PRE></PRE> tags to keep the same format is there any similar way inside a pecific datagrid cell?

Georges M. Kaddoum

Imar · February 19th, 2005, 08:11 AM

Hi again,

I am not sure what you mean. Can you explain your requirements in more detail?

Imar
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