trying to concatenate string for sending email

hi guys,

here is the string that i am sending in my mail body, when i get the email i do not get the link i want. Any ideas?

mail.Body = "You have been invited to a group <a href='http://localhost:1744/Register.aspx?GroupID=" + grpID + ">Invitation</a>";

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MarkSullivan000

8/22/2022 - Mon

Kamaraj Subramanian

2/19/2010

use the content type as 'text/html'

Kamaraj Subramanian

2/19/2010

Response.ContentType="text/plain";
Response.Write("This is text type");

Kamaraj Subramanian

2/19/2010

Set MailFormat to a "1", which is HTML format. Then you can insert regular
HTML for formatting in your Body.

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Kamaraj Subramanian

2/19/2010

check out this also

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/95_Sending_Email_using_C__and_ASPNet_20.aspx

MarkSullivan000

2/19/2010

ASKER

Hi itkamaraj, Im not fimiliar with context type , can please show me how to use it ?

This is my email code currently

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

                        mail.From = new MailAddress("sully000000@gmail.com");

                        mail.To.Add(mailaddress); 
     
                        mail.Subject = "Invitation to GroupBookings-Inc.com";

                       
                        mail.Body = "You have been invited to a group <a href='http://localhost:1744/Register.aspx?GroupID=" + grpID + ">Invitation</a>";
                     
                        
                       
                        SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();

                        smtp.Host = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SMTP"];

                        smtp.EnableSsl = true;

                        smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FROMEMAIL"], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FROMPWD"]);

                        smtp.Send(mail);