how to create a dynamic email from variable

[tirrell payton]

Hello,

I am attempting to validate my user's email addresses by sending them a
link. However, I am having trouble concatenating the variable name (GUID)
into the url. Im using C#:

public void SendSignupEmail(string emailaddress, string customerid)
{
SmtpClient mysmtpclient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mymailmessage = new MailMessage();
MailAddress mymailaddress = new MailAddress("si****@domain.com",
"Signup");
mysmtpclient.Host = "smtp.domain.com";
mysmtpclient.Port = 25;
mymailmessage.From = mymailaddress;
mymailmessage.To.Add("us**@domain.com");
mymailmessage.Subject = "Thank you for signing up";
mymailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);
}

[Mark Rae]

"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
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//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);

There's no need - just write out the URL and the customer's email software
will (almost certainly) display it as a hyperlink...

[tirrell payton]

Mark,

How do I write out the url with the variable in it? Thats the part im
having trouble with.

-Tirrell
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"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
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> //this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);

There's no need - just write out the URL and the customer's email software
will (almost certainly) display it as a hyperlink...

[Mark Rae]

"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
news:45**********************@roadrunner.com...

Mark,

How do I write out the url with the variable in it? Thats the part im
having trouble with.

mymailmessage.Body = "http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=" &
customerid;
mymailMessage.Body += " Click the link to validate your signup";

[tirrell payton]

Mark,

When I try this I get:
Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'

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"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
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>Mark,

How do I write out the url with the variable in it? Thats the part im
having trouble with.

mymailmessage.Body = "http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid="
& customerid;
mymailMessage.Body += " Click the link to validate your signup";

[Mark Rae]

"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
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Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'

OK, so change it to a '+'

[Shkedy]

You are missing the closing ">" from the link and the customer id
concatanation expression is wrong.\ I think what you want to do is:

mymailmessage.Body =

String.Format("<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid={0}'>click here to
validate your signup</a></p>", customerid);

Hope this helps,

Sagi Shkedy

http://blog.shkedy.com

"tirrell payton" <ti******@nospam.hotmail.comwrote in message
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Hello,

I am attempting to validate my user's email addresses by sending them a
link. However, I am having trouble concatenating the variable name (GUID)
into the url. Im using C#:

public void SendSignupEmail(string emailaddress, string customerid)
{
SmtpClient mysmtpclient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mymailmessage = new MailMessage();
MailAddress mymailaddress = new MailAddress("si****@domain.com",
"Signup");
mysmtpclient.Host = "smtp.domain.com";
mysmtpclient.Port = 25;
mymailmessage.From = mymailaddress;
mymailmessage.To.Add("us**@domain.com");
mymailmessage.Subject = "Thank you for signing up";
mymailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);
}

[Nitin]

tirrell payton wrote:

Hello,

I am attempting to validate my user's email addresses by sending them a
link. However, I am having trouble concatenating the variable name (GUID)
into the url. Im using C#:

public void SendSignupEmail(string emailaddress, string customerid)
{
SmtpClient mysmtpclient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mymailmessage = new MailMessage();
MailAddress mymailaddress = new MailAddress("si****@domain.com",
"Signup");
mysmtpclient.Host = "smtp.domain.com";
mysmtpclient.Port = 25;
mymailmessage.From = mymailaddress;
mymailmessage.To.Add("us**@domain.com");
mymailmessage.Subject = "Thank you for signing up";
mymailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);
}

try string.format instead
e.g
mymailmessage.Body= string.format("<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid={0}'>Click here
to validate your email</a>",customerid)

I hope it helps,
Regards