how to create a dynamic email from variable

[tirrell payton]

Hello,

I am attempting to validate my user's email addresses by sending them a
link. However, I am having trouble concatenating the variable name (GUID)
into the url. Im using C#:

public void SendSignupEmail(string emailaddress, string customerid)
{
SmtpClient mysmtpclient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mymailmessage = new MailMessage();
MailAddress mymailaddress = new MailAddress("(e-mail address removed)",
"Signup");
mysmtpclient.Host = "smtp.domain.com";
mysmtpclient.Port = 25;
mymailmessage.From = mymailaddress;
mymailmessage.To.Add("(e-mail address removed)");
mymailmessage.Subject = "Thank you for signing up";
mymailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);
}

 

[Mark Rae]

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);

There's no need - just write out the URL and the customer's email software
will (almost certainly) display it as a hyperlink...

 

[tirrell payton]

Mark,

How do I write out the url with the variable in it? Thats the part im
having trouble with.

-Tirrell

 

[Mark Rae]

Mark,

How do I write out the url with the variable in it? Thats the part im
having trouble with.

mymailmessage.Body = "http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=" &
customerid;
mymailMessage.Body += " Click the link to validate your signup";

 

[tirrell payton]

Mark,

When I try this I get:
Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'

 

[Mark Rae]

Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'

OK, so change it to a '+'

 

[Shkedy]

You are missing the closing ">" from the link and the customer id
concatanation expression is wrong.\ I think what you want to do is:

mymailmessage.Body =

String.Format("<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid={0}'>click here to
validate your signup</a></p>", customerid);

Hope this helps,

Sagi Shkedy

http://blog.shkedy.com

 

[Nitin]

Hello,

I am attempting to validate my user's email addresses by sending them a
link. However, I am having trouble concatenating the variable name (GUID)
into the url. Im using C#:

public void SendSignupEmail(string emailaddress, string customerid)
{
SmtpClient mysmtpclient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mymailmessage = new MailMessage();
MailAddress mymailaddress = new MailAddress("(e-mail address removed)",
"Signup");
mysmtpclient.Host = "smtp.domain.com";
mysmtpclient.Port = 25;
mymailmessage.From = mymailaddress;
mymailmessage.To.Add("(e-mail address removed)");
mymailmessage.Subject = "Thank you for signing up";
mymailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

//this is the part where I am having problems, I want to put the
customerid in the url, but I dont know the syntax
mymailmessage.Body = "<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid=&customerid'click
here to validate your signup</a></p>";
mysmtpclient.Send(mymailmessage);
}

try string.format instead
e.g
mymailmessage.Body= string.format("<p><a
href='http://www.domain.com/confirmation.aspx?customerid={0}'>Click here
to validate your email</a>",customerid)

I hope it helps,
Regards