MHTML export in e-mail body

[Marcelo Torres Assis]

I am exporting a report to MHTML in order to insert it in a email. Although the export is working, I could not find a way to include it in the email body using the MailMessage class of the framework . net. Could anyone help me in this issue?

[Duncan]

I would also like to know how to do this. I cannot seem to work out a way to achieve it.

[Arun Kumar]

Any Solution? I am also need this.

[Massimiliano Bassili]

Guys, you're looking at the wrong place as this is not part of the software and you should take care of it manually. There are multiple articles on the matter e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=.net+include+file+in+email+body

Cheers!

[Duncan]

Thanks for your response, however I dont feel you are understanding the issue.

The MHTML export contains the images embedded in the html somehow, and it is this which is causing the issue.

There is no problem with producing a HTML email body, but rather having the MHTML embedded images in the email body.

Thanks

[Chavdar]

Hi Duncan,

Currently it is not possible to send a MHTML document generated by Telerik Reporting directly in the message body of an e-mail. Still you may take a look at the Sending Inline MHTML thread at StackOverflow for alternative solutions. One of the possible ways is to save the html pages and images as separate files and then add the images as LinkedResources to the html body of the message.

Here is a sample code snippet which illustrates how to export a report to HTML format and save its streams as files:

class HtmlToFileRenderer
{
    const string BasePath = "C:\\Temp\\HtmlDocument";
    List<FileStream> files = new List<FileStream>();

    Stream CreateStream(string name, string extension, Encoding encoding, string mimeType)
    {
        var filePath = Path.ChangeExtension(Path.Combine(BasePath, name), extension);
        var fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Create);
        this.files.Add(fileStream);
        return fileStream;
    }

    public void Render(IReportDocument report)
    {
        var deviceInfo = new Hashtable();
        deviceInfo["BasePath"] = BasePath;
        var documentName = "";
        var reportProcessor = new ReportProcessor();
        reportProcessor.RenderReport("HTML", new ReportCatalog(), deviceInfo, this.CreateStream, out documentName);
        foreach (var fileStream in this.files)
        {
            fileStream.Dispose();
        }
        this.files.Clear();
    }
}

void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var fileRenderer = new HtmlToFileRenderer();
    fileRenderer.Render(new ReportCatalog());
}

Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Chavdar
the Telerik team