ASP.Net from Windows

[Brian Taylor]

I want to email rendered and data driven html content from a Windows
program. So I though it may be quickest to create an asp.net page or
control, load it up in Windows, render it to a string and send the string as
the email content.

Is this possible? Is this an easy way of producing html? Are their other
simple options?

Brian

[Bryant Hankins]

You could create a data-driven ASP.NET site. Then from your windows app do
an HTTP GET to make a web request and get the HTML for the site. If this is
a winform you could use the HTTPWebRequest class to do this.

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Hope this helps,
Bryant Hankins
Numinet Systems Inc.
http://www.numinet.com


"Brian Taylor" <ta*****@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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I want to email rendered and data driven html content from a Windows
program. So I though it may be quickest to create an asp.net page or
control, load it up in Windows, render it to a string and send the string as the email content.

Is this possible? Is this an easy way of producing html? Are their other
simple options?

Brian

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Brian,

I think Bryant's suggestion on using the httpwebrequest to get web page
content is quite good if you already have a web application running and
accessable. Here are some reference on using httpwebrequest component:

#ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 3
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/EWSWebPt3.asp

#C# sample for retrieving html content from any websites
http://www.dotnetspider.com/Technolo...lRetrieve.aspx

Also, if the html content you want to email is not very complex, you can
consider using a plain txt file to store the html template and then just
programmatically format it via various datas. Thanks.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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[Brian Taylor]

Thanks guys - this is great information. It looks like this will do the job
and be simple to implement. I'll give it a go.

Brian

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Hi Brian,

I think Bryant's suggestion on using the httpwebrequest to get web page
content is quite good if you already have a web application running and
accessable. Here are some reference on using httpwebrequest component:

#ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 3
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/EWSWebPt3.asp

#C# sample for retrieving html content from any websites
http://www.dotnetspider.com/Technolo...lRetrieve.aspx

Also, if the html content you want to email is not very complex, you can
consider using a plain txt file to store the html template and then just
programmatically format it via various datas. Thanks.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Brian,

Glad that those suggestions are of assistance. IF you need any further
help, please always feel free to post here. Good Luck!

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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