In this article, I will show you how to send GridView content as an email. Let’s suppose you are working on the asp.net web application and you are showing a list of users as a table and your boss asked you to give me all the users in tabular form.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="GridViewEmail.aspx.cs"
Inherits="GridViewEmail" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server"></asp:GridView>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click"
Text="Send Email" /></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.IO;
public partial class GridViewEmail : MyPage
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
GridView1.DataSource = GetData();
GridView1.DataBind();
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MyPage tmpPage = new MyPage();
HtmlForm form = new HtmlForm();
form.Controls.Add(GridView1);
tmpPage.Controls.Add(form);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
form.Controls[0].RenderControl(htmlWriter);
string htmlContent = sw.ToString();
// MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage("from@from.com", "to@to.com");
mailMessage.Subject = "My Exported GridView";
mailMessage.Body = htmlContent;
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient("your smtp server address");
smtpClient.Send(mailMessage);
}
public DataSet GetData()
{
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
DataTable dt = new DataTable("Product");
DataRow dr;
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Price", typeof(Int32)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("DisCount", typeof(Int32)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("SellPrice", typeof(Int32)));
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
dr = dt.NewRow();
dr[0] = i;
dr[1] = i * 2;
dr[2] = 1 * 3;
dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
ds.Tables.Add(dt);
Session["dt"] = dt;
return ds;
}
}
MyPage.cs
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for MyPage
/// </summary>
public class MyPage : Page
{
public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
{
GridView grid = control as GridView;
if (grid != null && grid.ID == "GridView1")
return;
else
base.VerifyRenderingInServerForm(control);
}
}
Tags:
ASP.NET