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Anita Mehta
Anita Mehta

Reputation: 577

How to render .cshtml as Email Body using SendGrid+MVC4?

I am trying to send email, normal email I am able to send. But now I have send a template(.cshtml) in email.

Please tell me to how can I do this.

Here is my code:

Controller:

public ActionResult SendEmailDeviceInfoDisplay(List<String> deviceDatailData)
{
    string body = "";
    var emailContoller = new EmailController();
    string email = deviceDatailData[9];
    body = "<html>Event Name: " + deviceDatailData[0] +"</html>";

    var sendEmail = emailContoller.SendDeviceAndEventInfoMail(email, body);
    ViewBag.info = deviceDatailData[8];
    return PartialView("SendEmailConformationDisplay");
}

SendGrid Method:

public string SendDeviceAndEventInfoMail(string email, string body)
{
    var myMessage = new SendGridMessage();
    myMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
    List<String> recipients = new List<String> { email };
    myMessage.AddTo(recipients);
    myMessage.Subject = "Information";
    myMessage.Html = body;
    var transportWeb = new Web(nc);
    transportWeb.Deliver(myMessage);
    return "done";
}

Ajax Call:

$(function () {
    var loggedInEmailId = $('#buildingSession').val();
    $('#sendAsEmailDeviceConformationDialog').dialog({
        autoOpen: false,
        width: '27.5em',
        position: { my: 'top', at: 'top+150' },
        opacity: 100,
        resizable: false,
        //title: 'Product',
        modal: true,
        closeOnEscape: false,
        open: function (event, ui) {
            $(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close", ui.dialog | ui).hide();

            $.ajax({
                url: '/Overview/SendEmailDeviceInfoDisplay',
                traditional: true,
                data: data,                    
                success: function (result) {
                    $('.ui-button-text').hide();
                    $('#sendAsEmailDeviceConformationDialog').html(result);
                },
                error: function () {
                }
            });
        }
    });
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 734

Answers (1)

Shawn C.
Shawn C.

Reputation: 6841

I had a similar requirement before and while it is possible to do I found more issues then it was worth so I went a different way. While this does not answer your question directly it is an alternate approach to the problem.

The basic idea was to avoid the complexity of using cshtml. So I used the following basic POCO object and stored it in a database:

public interface IEmailTemplate
{
    ... other db related fields
    string Name { get; set; }
    string FromEmail { get; set; }
    string FromDisplayName { get; set; }
    string Subject { get; set; }
    string TextMessage { get; set; }
    string HtmlMessage { get; set; }
    EmailPriority Priority { get; set; }
}

This allows me to manage the email without recompiling and re-deploying the project.

When I need to use it, I load the template and build out the email message. To help with that I use SmartFormat.NET to do data replacements using the follow logic:

    private string DataReplacements(string input, object args)
    {
        if (input.IsNullOrEmptyOrBlank())
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }
        return args != null ? Smart.Default.Format(input, args) : input;
    }

    subject = DataReplacements(template.Subject, dataModel);
    textMessage = DataReplacements(template.TextMessage, dataModel);
    htmlMessage = DataReplacements(template.HtmlMessage, dataModel);

Again while not answering your direct question this path gave me a lot more flexibility without the hassle.

Upvotes: 1

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