Question

This is quite a noob question, so please bear with me.

I am creating a software which allows email to be sent.

The sending part works flawlessly.

The problem is that the body of the email is saved in a mssql database in rtf format. When I retrieve the rtf (stored in a string), the email is sent as plain text, with the rtf code considered as text.

I need to convert the rtf text to html and I am trying to use this library: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx

Thing is I have no clue on how to use it. When I extract the library there are hundreds of files. I managed to add as reference rtf.interpreter, rtf.parser, rtf.converter.html through dlls found in the biin/release folder. But now I dont know the next step.

How can I use this in my project to convert the rtf string to html?

Can anyone guide me through this? Thank you.

Answer 1

Here a minimal sample:

  // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  private static string ConvertRtfToHtml()
  {
    const string sampleRtfText = @"{\rtf1foobar}";

    IRtfDocument rtfDocument = RtfInterpreterTool.BuildDoc( sampleRtfText );

    RtfHtmlConvertSettings settings = new RtfHtmlConvertSettings();
    settings.ConvertScope = RtfHtmlConvertScope.Content;

    RtfHtmlConverter htmlConverter = new RtfHtmlConverter( rtfDocument, settings );
    return htmlConverter.Convert();
  } // ConvertRtfToHtml

Check out also the included samples RtfWinForms (winForms) or RtfWindows (WPF).