Html page to string

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I am sending emails to my users in HTML format. There is lots of editing there, like user name, user birthday and many other details.

Now, I don't want my code to be look like this:

String message = "hello " + "David\n" + "congratulation for your " + birthday + "\nPleas visit our site\n" + siteLink + " to get your bonus";

Is there any C# tools I can use to make it easy editing?

please show some source code... what have you tried ? what exactly is not working ? — Yahia, Feb 04 '12 at 15:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

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It seems that you want to be able to specify named tokens in a single string so that the HTML is easy to read and edit, like so:

"Hello {FirstName},\nPlease visit our site:\n{SiteLink}"

Take a look at this answer for some ways to do that: Named string formatting in C#.

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answered Feb 04 '12 at 16:42

Michael Liu

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sll · Answer 2 · 2012-02-04T15:31:58.683

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string customBody = "<a href=\"www.oursite.com\">www.oursite.com</a>";
string htmlBody = String.Format("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">";
        body += "<HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">";
        body += "</HEAD><BODY><DIV>{0}</DIV></BODY></HTML>", customBody);

var message = new MailMessage(from, to);
var mimeType = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/html");
var alternate = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(htmlBody, mimeType);
message.AlternateViews.Add(alternate);        
message.IsBodyHTML = true;
smtpClient.Send(message);

See MSDN:

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answered Feb 04 '12 at 15:15

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How doe's it makes it easy for editing? I got another 20 parameters to push there... – Ilya Gazman Feb 04 '12 at 15:35
It is not a question of HTML email format but anyway you can use `StringBuilder` or `string.Format` to conditionally build HTML body, or can create some helper methods – sll Feb 04 '12 at 15:55
Anyways you need to fill in only `customBody` string, `htmlBody` is a standart header/footer – sll Feb 04 '12 at 15:58

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 15:20

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You can simply assign html code to message body

message.Body = "<b> This is a bold Text </b>";
message.IsBodyHTML = true;

Also, you can take advantage of MailDefinition Class. Check this link for the usage of this class.

answered Feb 04 '12 at 15:20

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 15:24

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Use isHtmlBody property, from MailMessage

Example:

MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.Body= "example of <a href='www.something.com'>Link</a>";
msg.IsBodyHtml = True;
...    
smtp.send(msg)

see :

IsBodyHtml Property

Example

answered Feb 04 '12 at 15:24

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 16:29

string.Format() might be what you are after.

string.Format() replaces each format item in a specified string with the text equivalent of a corresponding object's value.

So for instance

 string.Format("Dear {0} {1}, You are {2} today.",
       person.Title, person.Lastname, person.Age);

Html page to string

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