Question

I am looking for a way to email all the values entered by a user into a form. Does this exist in asp.net ?

here is my email code:

 Dim messagemain As String = emailbody
        Dim message As New MailMessage()
        message.IsBodyHtml = True
        message.From = New MailAddress("[e-mail]")
        message.To.Add(New MailAddress("[e-mail]"))
        message.Subject = ("Response from form")
        message.Body = (messagemain)
        Dim client As New SmtpClient()
        client.Host = "email.foo.foo"
        client.Send(message)

I usually go through manually and ad all the necessaries to the emailbody var then send, but this form has over 200 fields.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You may try too looping over the Controls collection of the page and if you find a textbox add its value to the mail body:

var body = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var control in pageInstance.Controls)
{
    if (control is TextBox)
    {
        var value = ((TextBox)control).Text;
        body.AppendFormat("value: {0}<br/>", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(value));
    }
}
message.Body = body.ToString();

Remark: This will work only if the text boxes are directly placed on the page and not inside some other containers such as panels, … In order to take this into account you could write a recursive function that visits all the controls.