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How to Send HTML E-mail from an ASP.NET MVC Controller

As I argued about a year ago, any **modern piece of software needs **to send e-mail [https://martinnormark.com/generate-html-e-mail-body-in-c-using-templates]. It needs to connect, and reach its users. Back then I showed how to send templated HTML e-mail [https://martinnormark.com/generate-html-e-mail-body-in-c-using-templates], using the little known MailDefinition class in C#

anonymous type

Serialize C# dynamic and Anonymous types to XML

Dynamic / Anonymous types in C# was a great improvement to the framework, made in version 3.0. I use it a lot when doing AJAX callbacks from JavaScript to ASP.NET MVC Controllers, not to forget the extensive use of anonymous types already used in ASP.NET MVC. Then yesterday,

ASP.NET

Making your ASP.NET Global Resource files work in JavaScript. IntelliSense included!

Any modern web application needs localization! You simply can’t ignore the huge amounts of people who doesn’t speak your language, or whose native language is different from yours. You’re probably using resource files (.resx) in .NET, but how do you go about getting values from your resource

C#

Translate text in C#, using Google Translate, revisited

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about how to translate text in C# using Google Translate [https://martinnormark.com/2009/03/12/translate-text-in-c-using-google-translate]. Since then, an official AJAX API has been released, which is a much better solution. Reading the comments of the blog post indicates that

Hardware

The (almost) Ultimate Developer PC 2.0

There’s a lot of talk on Twitter [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=Ultimate+Developer+PC+2.0&phrase=&ors=&nots=&tag=&lang=all&from=&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=

C#

Generate HTML e-mail body in C# using templates

Almost a year ago, I answered [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886728/generating-html-email-body-in-c/886750#886750] a question [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886728/generating-html-email-body-in-c] on StackOverflow [http://stackoverflow.com/], about if there’s a better way to generate HTML e-mails in C# [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886728/generating-html-email-body-in-c/886750#886750] than using

IIS7

IISAPP equivalent in IIS 7 and beyond

If there’s one change I hate about IIS 7 and beyond, it is the lack of the very useful IISAPP script that was present on IIS 6 installations. Run it from a command prompt, and you will see a list of all running worker processes, the process id and

C#

Unit test for verifying references from DataAnnotation validation to the ErrorMessageResourceName value

I love the new model validation features in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. One thing I don’t like though, is that the ErrorMessageResourceName is loosely typed. The ErrorMessageResourceType, however, is a System.Type which will be strongly typed by assigning its value using the typeof(Namespace.ResourceSetType) method. Since there’s

C#

Multiple SSL certificates on IIS using host headers

In IIS SSL sites have seemed to be limited to only one site per network interface, since you (from IIS Manager) cannot specify a host header binding on the HTTPS protocol. It turns out, that it is only a limitation in the UI. So to have e.g. two sites

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC View Page Editor in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 won’t recognize HTML tags

I love the new IntelliSense dialog in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, that ScottGu has blogged about [http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/22/vs-2010-code-intellisense-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx] . But when editing an ASP.NET MVC View Page in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, you end up fighting the IntelliSense. That

C#

Search Twitter from C# using LINQ to XML

In some applications, it could be cool to have a feature that enabled the user to quickly get a glimpse of what people are saying on Twitter [http://twitter.com/] about the user or their product, service, company etc. For instance, a service like GetSatisfaction.com [http://getsatisfaction.com] has

IIS7

Migrate web.config to support the IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline

Whenever you deploy a website to IIS 7 that is not compliant with the IIS 7 integrated pipeline, you will get an error like this one: [http://www.martinnormark.com/image.axd?picture=iis7integratedpipelineerror.png] Not the great error message you get. It actually gives you the solution right away:

C#

Automatically translate Global and Local Resource (resx) files

Yesterday, I blogged about how you can use Google Translate to translate a string in C# [https://martinnormark.com/post/Translate-text-in-C-using-Google-Translate.aspx]. To make it more useful than just a simple translator, and because I need to translate some Global Resource files for an E-commerce website that I’m working

C#

Translate text in C#, using Google Translate

*** This post is no longer up-to-date. Take a look at my new post, revisiting how to tranlate text in C# using Google Translate [https://martinnormark.com/2010/10/25/translate-text-in-c-using-google-translate-revisited] *** Sometimes, it would be great to be able to translate a text from e.g. English to Danish directly from

C#

C# TwitPic API client

I’ve spent some time lately, playing around with the Twitter [http://twitter.com] API [http://apiwiki.twitter.com/]. And along with that belongs the TwitPic [http://twitpic.com/]’s API [http://twitpic.com/api.do]. I’m using Twitter a lot, to stay in touch with tech news, other

Windows Azure

Early thoughts on Windows Azure

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/64542070@N00/2978778160/] So I just got home from work, and fired up my browser to check out the latest news from this year’s Microsoft PDC [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/], by live streaming, and following the live blogging session [http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081028/

Silverlight

Silverlight 2.0 provides better remote debugging experience

Some months ago, I did some remote debugging of a Silverlight app on a Mac [http://www.martinnormark.com/post/Windows-Vista-Mac-debugging-a-Silverlight-app-using-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx] . To say the least, it wasn’t all that intuitive, and it required a lot of trying and guessing to achieve the desired goal. Personally I think remote

ASP.NET

Windows Live Development - Authenticating users via Windows Live ID

With so many online services out there, you nearly claim a new online identity somewhere every day. You tend to use the same username and password couple for all of them, but sometimes your preferred username is taken, or your password does not meet the sites’ password policy. I reckon

C#

Designing for Internationalization

Web sites and Web Applications today, are very often exposed beyond the borders of your home country, and therefore users speak different languages, and has a different currency, date- and time formats etc. ASP.NET provides you with an entire namespace for handling things like this. That is the System.

C#

Adding a Website to IIS7 programmatically

Some time ago, I blogged about Adding an Application Pool to IIS7 programmatically [http://www.martinnormark.com/post/Adding-an-Application-Pool-to-IIS7-programmatically.aspx] . The result was a new Application Pool, that uses the Integrated Pipeline in IIS7. In this post I will show you how to add a new Website, that uses the

C#

Adding an Application Pool to IIS7 programmatically

Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7) [http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=7] has a great new set of features regarding configuration. Using the Integrated Configuration system, you can configure your server from XML files, the IIS7 manager, the command prompt using the APPCMD tool, but IIS7 also lets you

ASP.NET

Event performance optimization with the EventHandlerList

When using custom events (event delegates) in your ASP.NET pages, user controls and server controls, many developers might define their Events as public fields, like this: publicevent EventHandler MyCustomEvent; And use this code to fire the event: protectedvoid OnMyCustomEvent(EventArgs e) { if(MyCustomEvent != null) { MyCustomEvent(this, e); } } Nothing is

Silverlight

Windows Vista / Mac debugging a Silverlight app using Visual Studio 2008

[obsolete] As I wrote here [http://www.martinnormark.com/post/Silverlight-20-provides-better-remote-debugging-experience.aspx] , this is no longer the way to do it as Silverlight 2.0 provides a much better experience. As I wrote recently in another blog post [https://martinnormark.com/post/Recommended-listening-NET-Rocks-with-Brad-Abrams.aspx] about a .NET Rocks [http://www.

ASP.NET

Configuring IIS 7 default document from web.config

IIS 7 has a lot of changes regarding the configuration model. Using the Integrated Configuration System in IIS 7 you can set configuration of your server on different levels, compared to IIS 6, where the ASP.NET developer were more restricted. Configuring IIS 7 from an ASP.NET Web Application’

ASP.NET

Sending e-mails from your ASP.NET app and maintaining a list of recipients

Making your application send e-mails, is something you do almost in every application. It’s easy – all you need is an SMTP server to relay your mail through. Sending e-mail messages to several recipients at once can also be done, by adding multiple recipients to either of the MailMessage.To