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Mail an asp.net page from c#

I want to mail an asp.net page from c#. well it is questioned widely and I saw bulk of questions like that on stackoverflow too. But I have few problems that I'm not getting the solutions
What Itried
many example. below are few
using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = System.IO.File.OpenText( Server.MapPath("~/About.aspx"))) // Path to your
{ // HTML file
string fromAddress = "from#yahoo.com";
string toAddress = "to#yahoo.com";
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage myMail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress);
myMail.Subject = "HTML Message";
myMail.IsBodyHtml = true;
myMail.Body = reader.ReadToEnd(); // Load the content from your file...
//...
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.mail.yahoo.com");
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("from#yahoo.com", "password");
smtp.Send(myMail);
}
But this is giving me this output.
Well you noticed that it is without css. Can I mail an entire asp.net page or do I need to write my code in c# with inline css? Or do I need to create a control with a patern and send it?

You are trying to send unprocessed aspx file. This cannot be successful. You need to process this page (I dont remember what method to use), and dont forget about inline css. So bassicaly you need a new page. And if you need a new page, you can do it with pure html, not in asp.

What component to use to send mail with any kind of body?

I made a mail sender in C# but I'm having trouble with the body of the mail. It only sends the texts without pictures, links and other elements. Not to mention, I used RichTextBox for that purpose.
So now my question is: what component to use to send mail with pictures, links and else?
I also enabled IsBodyHtml to true.
What I want to do is to copy the pictures, links and texts (with different colors and size) from Microsoft Word and paste it to control, and when user gets mail he gets the exact same body and layout as I send them.

You'll need to send it as html.
Save your word doc as html and use that.
For the images in your document you can either point to them via their absolute urls (publicly available via the internet).
Or you could use the LinkedResource class.
With the LinkedResource class your images have to specify a cid in the source.
var inlineLogo = new LinkedResource("path/myfile.png");
inlineLogo.ContentId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
var imageHtmlFragment = string.Format("<img alt='My Logo' src='cid:{0}' style='width: 250px;height: 60px;'/>",inlineLogo.ContentId);
var newMail = new MailMessage();
var view = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(imageHtmlFragment, null, "text/html");
view.LinkedResources.Add(inlineLogo);
newMail.AlternateViews.Add(view);

MailMessage c# - How to make it HTML and add images etc?

string to = "email#hotmail.co.uk";
string body = "Test";
SmtpClient SMTPServer = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
MailMessage mailObj = new MailMessage(urEmail, to, subject, body);
SMTPServer.Send(mailObj);
This is how i am currently sending a test email.
How do i make this html and be able to make the email sent out look better by adding images etc?
Thanks

On the MailMessage set the property IsBodyHtml to true.
string to = "email#hotmail.co.uk";
string body = "Test";
SmtpClient SMTPServer = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
MailMessage mailObj = new MailMessage(urEmail, to, subject, body);
mailObj.IsBodyHtml = true; // This line
SMTPServer.Send(mailObj);

You have to set mailObj .IsBodyHtml = true;

you can use the following idea to take an ASPX page and render it to a string:
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
Server.Execute("Login.aspx", writer);
string html = writer.ToString();
If you then set the MailMessage.IsBodyHtml to true you can send an HTML message. If you want to use images and other stuff make sure that the receiver of the email can access those images.

There are two ways of doing this:
Embed the images inside your mail. (see this question)
Link to the images through your src attribute of the image tag inside your HTML mail. This needs you to host the image files somewhere on a webserver which the recipients can access.
In both cases you will need to send the mail with a html body.
mailObj.IsBodyHtml = true;

For your question about adding Image to your email, if your asking for embedding then you can use Anchor tags of HTML or else attach the image file to the mail by using mailObj.Attachments.Add() method i guess.
But the best way is to send the images as attachments because some firewalls just blocks the embedded images but allows attachments. So that way your better safer in delivering the content, though its not a perfect way.

Using an HTTP handler in ASP.NET to generate an image for display in email

I'm generating a barcode image as the response from an HTTP handler, like so:
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
context.Response.Clear();
context.Response.ContentType = "image/Jpeg";
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
Bitmap objBitmap = GenerateBarcode(context.Request.Params["Code"]);
objBitmap.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
context.Response.BinaryWrite(ms.GetBuffer());
}
I go to http://www.MyWebsite.com/MyProject/BarCode.aspx?code=12345678 and it works great. Likewise I stick <img alt="" src="http://www.MyWebsite.com/MyProject/BarCode.aspx?code=12345678"> on my webpage and it works great. But I stick that same image tag in an HTML email and it doesn't show up (at least not in MS Outlook 2007; I haven't tested other email clients yet.)
I'm guessing this is somehow related to the fact that I'm using an HTTP handler, as other, static images in the email are showing up fine. How can I fix this so that the image shows up? (I can't just use a static image because the code is determined at the time the email is sent.)
Update:
It turns out I hadn't noticed a key detail. The image isn't just not showing up; rather the image src attribute is getting replaced with "http://portal.mxlogic.com/images/transparent.gif". I've determined that using the .aspx or .ashx extensions triggers this replacement (or probably any extension except those expected for images like .gif or .jpg), and that including a query string in the URL also triggers this, even when it's a standard image extension. I guess it's some overzealous security feature. So including an image like BarCode.aspx?code=12345678 just isn't going to work.
It occurs to me that I could do something like <img alt="" src="http://www.MyWebsite.com/MyProject/12345678/BarCode.jpg"> and then create a handler for all files named BarCode.jpg. Here 12345678/ isn't an actual path but it wouldn't matter since I'm redirecting the request to a handler, and I could scrape the code value from that phony path in the URL. But, I'd probably have to change some IIS setting to have requests for .jpg files handled by ASP.NET, and I'd want to still make sure that other JPEGs besides my BarCode.jpg loaded normally.
Honestly, I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies. more
which leaves us with some hairy points
The limitations imposed by Word 2007 are described in detail linked off in the article, but here are a few highlights:
no support for background images
(HTML or CSS)
no support for forms
no support for Flash, or other
plugins
no support for CSS floats
no support for replacing bullets with
images in unordered lists
no support for CSS positioning
no support for
animated GIFs
i think your best bet would be to embed the image using the LinkedResource class, something like
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("...");
mail.To.Add("...");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "Test mail";
AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("Here is an embedded image." ", null, "text/html");
//create the LinkedResource (embedded image)
LinkedResource logo = new LinkedResource(GenerateBarcode(Code)));
logo.ContentId = "logo";
htmlView.LinkedResources.Add(logo);
mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);

I don't know why it doesn't work but if you are saying that static images from the site hosting the handler work fine here's a slightly modified version you might try:
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
context.Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
using (var image = GenerateBarcode(context.Request.Params["Code"]))
{
image.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
}
No need to clear the response in a generic handler as there's nothing written yet
Content-Type is image/jpeg
No need of intermediary memory stream, you could write directly to the response
Make sure to properly dispose the bitmap

You will have to put the image as an attachment, or use html in the mail. Probably your error happends due to Outlook though.

This link suggests the problem, as you suggested is a security/anti-SPAM feature causing the problem (mxlogic.com points to a McAfee product)

Managing Lotus Notes Mail Format using C#

I am accessing mail body and fetching it in another mail.
But i am not getting original format of previous mail in new mail.
Problem i am facing in this situation are:
Not getting images in destination mail.
Font is also varying.
I am accessing mail body as follows:
NotesRichTextItem rtItem = (NotesRichTextItem)docInbox.GetFirstItem("Body");
String Body = rtItem.GetFormattedText(false , 0);
String bodyFormat = rtItem.type.ToString();
also tried this code:
NotesItem itemBody = docInbox.GetFirstItem("Body");
String bodyFormat = itemBody.type.ToString();
String Body = itemBody.Text;
But not getting solution in both case.

If you're trying to access rich text from Lotus Notes and put it into your own system, that will be very difficult and the NotesAPI is of little help to you. However, if you are trying to copy a rich text item from one NotesDocument to another, look at the AppendRTItem method of the NotesRichTextItem class.