creating an hyperlink text in a message body of email sent in c#

Question

_{Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:18 AM}

Hi all, 
  I have developed an addin for outlook, in my addin i m initiating new message which is posted to url of our website using http post and i wil get a link as a response. I need to insert this link in the message body and send it as email to selected contacts.

The problem is at the end of the message body i m appending a string "To continue discussion click here" and i need to make the string "here" as an hyperlink which directs to our page.

My code is here:

public bool Send_Mail(string Link)

{

try

{

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationClass();

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace NS = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder objFolder = NS.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderOutbox);

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem objMail = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)objFolder.Items.Add(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);

objMail.Body = txtMessage.Text + "\n\nTo continue discussion Click Here " + Link;

objMail.Subject = txtSubject.Text;

objMail.To = txtTo.Text;

objMail.CC = txtCc.Text;

objMail.Send();

return true;

}

catch

{

return false;

}

}

Here i m passing the link directly, it is working but I should not show the link like this instead i should make "here" as an hyperlink...

can anybody help me to do this...

Thanks & Regards,
Mahesh

All replies (7)

_{Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:41 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Paul,

Here instead of using objMail.Body i need to specify in objMail.HTMLBody. If I want to use HTMLBody then I need to specify the entire body of the page in HTML format... (I dono whether ther is any way to use both Body and HTMLBody)

  I got sum code and also a dll which can be used to convert the content of rich text document to html format... :)

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/nrtftree.aspx   <-- RTF to HTML

http://www.sgoliver.net/nrtftree.aspx   <-- an update to the above

to use this directly i need to create a temp rtf file and store the formatted text in that and giv it's path as an input to the convertor class while creating an object of that class:

TraductorRtf t = new TraductorRtf("C:\tst.rtf");

string strhtml = t.traducir();

//objMail.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatRichText;

objMail.HTMLBody = strhtml + "\n\nTo continue discussion click <a href=\" + Link + "\>here</ID></a>";

objMail.Subject = txtSubject.Text;

objMail.To = txtTo.Text;

objMail.CC = txtCc.Text;

objMail.Send();

Thanks & regards
Mahesh

_{Saturday, February 7, 2009 12:39 PM}

Maheshs13,

objMail.Body = txtMessage.Text + "\n\nTo continue discussion Click <a Href=" + Link + ">Here</a>"

you may also to also set the objmail document type to html

Hope this helpsP Worthington

_{Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:17 AM}

Hi Worthington,

Thanks for reply...
I tried it but in mail it appears as code itself... :

To continue discussion Click <a Href=http://www.google.co.in>Here</a>

how to set the objMail doc type to html ?

Regards
Mahesh

_{Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:32 PM}

Hi Paul,

 I tried that, I set the format as : 

objMail.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
objMail.Body = txtMessage.Text + "\n\nTo continue discussion Click <a Href=\" + Link + "\>Here</a>";

but in an email it is showing as it is:

 To continue discussion <a Href="http://www.google.co.in">Here</a>

Regards
Mahesh 

_{Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:56 AM}

Hi P Worthington,

 Is it correct wat i m doing? or do i need to set sum more properties?

Regards
Mahesh

_{Friday, February 13, 2009 2:34 AM}

Hi Mahesh,

Thank you for sharing your helpful sample code and articles, I think they will surely be beneficial to other community members.

By the way, please don't duplicate post. Thank you!
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharpgeneral/thread/6699ab09-3469-42d6-acba-4bf176b38cf9/

Best regards,
Guo

_{Friday, February 13, 2009 6:08 AM}

Hi Guo,

   I did not purposfully posted twice... I posted once n i saw it was not showing in "My Threads" so i thought it is not posted so i posted again... 2 questions i have posted twice.. and then I posted answers also twice so that other users should not think that this is unsolved problem....

now also if i post the new question it is not showing in My Threads or My Alerts immediatly........ it will show after sometimes, dono y??? 

any ways thanks for ur response

Regards,

Mahesh