Question

I have a report created thru an ASP.NET table and I want to send an email message containing this report in the body of the message not as an attachment including the table layout and content. How can this be done in c#? Thank you Dov

Answer 1

I put together the following code from an article at this site http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/dotnetemailwebsite.asp which I found thru a question asked here “Best way to create complex html email message with asp.net, how?”, and from this article How to Print in ASP.NET 2.0 http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=92.
I use an asp.net panel so that I can get only parts of the page and not the whole page so that you can send a table, in my case, without having to send the button which activates sending the email or any other part of the page which I don’t want to send.
NOTE: Any style properties for controls sent must be set directly to the controls and not thru cssclass.
This is the code:

//Here I extract html of the control to be sent
StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
//pnlRpt is an asp.net panel containing the controls to be sent
pnlRpt.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
string htmlStr = stringWrite.ToString();

//Here I send the message whith the html of the table
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("EmailOfSender");
msg.To.Add("emailOfReceiver");
msg.Subject = "your subject";
msg.Body = htmlStr;
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(mailServer);
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(userName, usePass);
smtp.Send(msg);
msg.Dispose();

With this code I sent an asp.net table generated and populated in background code and it worked perfectly.