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Send email. Set body from HTML file

I am sending out an email very simply using the below code from within a WinApp not ASP

      System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
      message.IsBodyHtml = true;
      message.To.Add("");
      message.Subject = "";
      message.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("");
      message.Body = "";
      System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("");
      smtp.Send(message);

I am working on something that is needed to send out emails based on templates. So I was curious if there was a way to build the BODY of the email from an external .html file. It would make for this to be so much nicer versus having to put a thousand lines of HTML code within the message.Body STRING.

I have another question which is, can I setup on the HTML page I create "if the above is even possible" to accept arguments/params to send the email off as well? An example would be that I have a block such as [USERNAME] supplied on the html page. I would pass the current username to the HTML page, and that is what would be sent to the user. I've seen doing this with Resource files, but I really would like to stay away from that approach otherwise I will have to accomadate some else that is off topic.

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Meir Rivkin

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chrisryhal

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Sounds like a heck of a plan Sedgwick, will load it up and let you know.

chrisryhal

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Ok, I have it working for the most part, but I'm thinking the best way to accomadate multiple values would be a loop. I'm kinda having a brainfart here though.
Ok, so for starters it works for the most part and I was able to use a StreamReader to fetch my HTML using System.IO

      StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(@"\\<myserver>\ActiveCustomerTemplate.htm");
      string strHTMLBody = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
      streamReader.Close();

But lets say that the HTML that is pulled is stored like so........

string strHTMLBody = "##STR1## walked with ##STR3## to avoid being seen by ##STR2## and ##STR4## walked with ##STR5##";

and I have an array setup like so that will be the "REPLACE" variables

string str1 = "Chris";
string str2 = "Jack";
string str3 = "Heather";
string str4= "Mark";
string str5 = "Carla";

string[] strArray = { str1, str2, str3, str4, str5 };
foreach (string str in strArray)
{
MessageBox.Show(str);
}

What would be the most efficient manner to replace the ##STR1## with the "string str1" since the strHTMLBody variable will have multiple replaces required?

chrisryhal

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So I guess in terms of not being too complex, I'm trying to replace multiple values like so

strEmailBody = strHTMLBody.Replace("##STR1##", str1);

and "strEmaiBody" would of course be the "mail.Body" value

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chrisryhal

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Thank you so much for all of your help.