Using stringreader to set email body to html page

[arkadia93]

I am trying to send out an email that is based upon an HTML page. Is it possible to read the HTML page into something like a StringReader and then set the Mail.Body equal to the StringReader? If it is, does anybody have any code samples?

 

[ca8msm]

You can create a httpWebRequest to create a connection to the page, then read the response into a string with the httpWebResponse class.


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[arkadia93]

Thanks, do you have an example?

 

[ca8msm]

As with any other class/method, have a look at it's associated help file. You'll find that this type of information is available from Microsoft on pretty much all of the framework so a simple search or google should always be carried out first.


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[arkadia93]

Would I be right doing something like this?

message.IsBodyHtml = true;

//Message body content
HttpWebRequest myReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("

http://www.contoso.com/");

//then read the response into a string with the httpWebResponse class
HttpWebResponse HttpWResp = (HttpWebResponse)myReq.GetResponse();

message.Body = HttpWResp;

 

[ca8msm]

You can't set the Body property to a class as it is expecting a String.


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[arkadia93]

I've found an alternative way of doing this which seems to work :

message.IsBodyHtml = true;

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("referred_email.html"));
string s = sr.ReadToEnd();

message.Body = s;

 

[ca8msm]

Yes, that will work as long as the file is always based locally. The other method will work if the file is available from any web server.


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