In my view, users can search for a document and once they get the result, they can click on its id and they can download the document from specific url based on id: http://test.com/a.ashx?format=pdf&id={0}
For example, if the id is 10, then url to download document will be: http://test.com/a.ashx?format=pdf&id=10, and when user click on it they are able to download the document.
This is how it looks like in my view:
foreach (var item in Model)
{
<td>
<a [email protected]("http://test.com/a.ashx?format=pdf&id={0}",item.id)>
@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.id)
</a>
</td>
}
And below is my controller action for SendEmail.
I am able to send email to the user. But i am having problem with sending attachments. My question is: how can i attach the document that comes with the url to the email?
public static bool SendEmail(string SentTo, string Text, string cc)
{
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
msg.To.Add(SentTo);
msg.CC.Add(cc);
msg.Subject = "test";
msg.Body = Text;
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
System.Net.Mail.Attachment attachment;
attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(???);
msg.Attachments.Add(attachment);
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("mysmtp.test.com", 25);
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.EnableSsl = false;
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("test", "test");
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
//client.EnableSsl = true;
try
{
client.Send(msg);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
If the PDF file is generated on an external site, you will need to download it in some way, for this you can use WebClient:
var client = new WebClient();
// Download the PDF file from external site (pdfUrl)
// to your local file system (pdfLocalFileName)
client.DownloadFile(pdfUrl, pdfLocalFileName);
Then you can use it on Attachment:
attachment = new Attachment(pdfLocalFileName, MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf);
msg.Attachments.Add(attachment)