The goal: Use WebSupergoo's ABCpdf .NET 7.0 to create a PDF file on the fly. Without saving the file to disk, attach it to an email message, and send the email.
Prerequisites:
- Create a .NET 3.5 C# web site.
- Configure the mailSettings section in web.config to point to your SMTP server. Don't have an SMTP server? See this handy tip.
- Add a button to a form on your website. Place the code below in the button's Click event handler.
- That's it! But if you're on 64-bit Windows and ABCpdf.NET is throwing an exception, try this.
Here's the code:
// Create a mail message, setting the "from" address, "to" address, subject and body
SmtpClient smptClient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.From = new MailAddress("ssaporta@localupsolutions.com");
mailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("ssaporta@localupsolutions.com"));
mailMessage.Subject = "Test";
mailMessage.Body = "This is a test.";
// Use WebSupergoo's ABCpdf to create a PDF document
Doc theDoc = new Doc();
theDoc.AddHtml("<html><body>The time is now <b>" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "</b> text.</body></html>");
// Save the document to a memory stream (rather than to a file on disk)
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
theDoc.Save(ms);
// Important: return to the beginning of the stream
ms.Position = 0;
// Set the MIME type and filename for the attachment
ContentType ct = new ContentType();
ct.MediaType = "application/pdf";
ct.Name = "mydoc" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + ".pdf";
// Create the attachment from the stream
Attachment attachment = new Attachment(ms, ct);
mailMessage.Attachments.Add(attachment);
// Send the email
smptClient.Send(mailMessage);
// Clean up
ms.Close();
theDoc.Clear();
Label1.Text = "Done";
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