Emails notification

HEY ALL

Would like a few sample coding on how to email a list of recipents with there own unique information using a plaint text or html template.

template Example

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to </title>
</head>
<body>
Dear <%Name%>,
An account has been created for you.
Your account is FREE and allows you to perform bla bla features.
To login and complete your profile, please go to:
<a href=""><%LogOnUrl%></a>
Your User ID is your email address and password is: <%Password%>
</body>
</html>

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO TAKE THE TEMPLATE AND TRANSFORM THIS INTO A FORMATTED MESSAGE WITH REQUIRED FIELDS FILLED OUT, THEN STORE THAT FORMATTED MESSAGE LIKE IN A REPOSITORY.

Re: Emails notification

MakeMe
HOW TO TAKE THE TEMPLATE AND TRANSFORM THIS INTO A FORMATTED MESSAGE WITH REQUIRED FIELDS FILLED OUT

var text = ////

formattedText = text.Replace("%Name%", yourName).Replace(....)

MakeMe
HEN STORE THAT FORMATTED MESSAGE LIKE IN A REPOSITORY.

Store in a database table.

Re: Emails notification

Hello,

I am storing email templates as normal asp webpages. For example, i have an email template

@model EmailTemplate
@{
    Layout = null;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Thank you for Registration</title>
</head>
<body>
    Hello @Model.FirstName, <br/>
    Thank you for registering.

    Your username is: @Model.UserName <br/>
    Your password is: @Model.Password
</body>
</html>

Then, from code behind, i am getting the page html content.

This is the static method

public static string GetViewPageHtml(Controller controller, object model, string viewName)
        {
            ViewEngineResult result = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(controller.ControllerContext, viewName);

            if (result.View == null)
                throw new Exception(string.Format("View Page {0} was not found", viewName));

            controller.ViewData.Model = model;
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
            {
                using (HtmlTextWriter output = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
                {
                    ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(controller.ControllerContext, result.View, controller.ViewData, controller.TempData, output);
                    result.View.Render(viewContext, output);
                }
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }

And i call it from a Controller, like this:

public ActionResult SendEmail()
{
    var viewPageModel = CreateEmailTemplateModel();
    string emailTemplate = GetViewPageHtml(this, viewPageModel, "~/Views/EmailTemplates/RegistrationSuccess.cshtml");

    // now send the emailTemplate as "body"
}

Is very easy to update the template, and you are working on a real web page