Class MailMessage: reference a CSS in a newsletter

Michel Couche

Hello,

I am starting the development of a newsletter
The use of the class MailMessage of System.Net.Mail is quite straightforward for usual contact forms but my question here is "How can I reference a CSS file in the header of my newsletter message ?"

Here is where I am ....

(1) I found a way to reference a web page in the body of the message (ref: http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.2.aspx)

Dim mail As New MailMessage()
.....
Dim url As String = "http://www.MySite.com/MyPage.html"
mail.Body = HttpContent(url)
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
mail.UrlContentBase = url
.....
Actually I would like to programmatically build the Body and therefore this solution lacks flexibility in my scenario
(2) I also looked at the Headers, UrlContentLocation and UrlContentBase properties as possible solutions to add a reference to a CSS file but found to practical answer to my question.

Thanks in advance for your support,

Michel

Oct 5 '06 #1

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Chris Fulstow

This areticle has some great tips for building HTML newsletters:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/

The best solution is to use inline CSS, rather than link to an external
stylesheet.

Michel Couche wrote:

Hello,

I am starting the development of a newsletter
The use of the class MailMessage of System.Net.Mail is quite straightforward for usual contact forms but my question here is "How can I reference a CSS file in the header of my newsletter message ?"

Here is where I am ....

(1) I found a way to reference a web page in the body of the message (ref: http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.2.aspx)

Dim mail As New MailMessage()
....
Dim url As String = "http://www.MySite.com/MyPage.html"
mail.Body = HttpContent(url)
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
mail.UrlContentBase = url
....
Actually I would like to programmatically build the Body and therefore this solution lacks flexibility in my scenario
(2) I also looked at the Headers, UrlContentLocation and UrlContentBase properties as possible solutions to add a reference to a CSS file but found to practical answer to my question.

Thanks in advance for your support,

Michel

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.5700.6" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am sta</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>rting the
development of a newsletter</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The use of the class MailMessage of System.Net.Mail
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>is quite straightforward for usual contact forms
but my question here is "How can I reference a CSS file in the header of my
newsletter message ?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is where I am ....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(1) I found a way to reference a web page in
the body of the message (ref: <A
href="http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.2.aspx">http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.2.aspx</A>) </DIV>
<DIV><BR>   Dim mail As New MailMessage()<BR>....<BR>   Dim
url As String = "<A href="http://www.MySite.com"><FONT
color=#000000>http://www.MySite.com</FONT></A>/MyPage.html"<BR>  
mail.Body = HttpContent(url)<BR>   mail.BodyFormat =
MailFormat.Html<BR>   mail.UrlContentBase = url<BR>....</DIV>
<DIV>Actually I would like to programmatically build the Body and therefore this
solution lacks flexibility in my scenario </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(2) I also looked at the Headers, UrlContentLocation and UrlContentBase
properties as possible solutions to add a reference to a CSS file but found
to practical answer to my question.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks in advance for your support,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Michel </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>

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