Send a web page as an attachment

[dpdoug]

Does anyone know how to programatically send a web page as an attachment with an email?

I have a report that is dynamically created and populates a webform page. I'd like to have it so that after the user runs the report and likes the results, he/she can click a button or a link and send it as an attachment to a given recipient.

The email part is easy, I'd just like to be able to create an HTML file that I can attach to or embed in an email.

Thanks.

 

[ca8msm]

You can use Page.RenderControl and save the results out to a HTML file that you could then email. For example:

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ASP.NETCookbook_chap1a/?page=2

Or you could save the output into a string and send it as part of the email body:

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/102203-1.2.aspx

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[RTomes]

Another way of getting html content of any webpage is
Public Function GetPageContent(ByVal Url As String) As String
GetPageContent = ""
Try
Dim wreq As WebRequest
Dim wres As WebResponse
Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader
Dim content As String

wreq = HttpWebRequest.Create(Url)
wres = wreq.GetResponse()
sr = New StreamReader(wres.GetResponseStream())
content = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
GetPageContent = content

Catch
End Try

End Function

 

[TheStriker]

I believe this is possible with the CDO object. Look up references about using this object and that should help. There is a property that allows you to send a Web Page or a message within an email.

 

[RTomes]

I would stay away from CDO.
Here is a free .net component.

http://www.quiksoft.com/freesmtp/