Sending Email from an Application

Updated March 30, 2010
Iron Speed Designer V7.0 and later

The best way to send email from your application is by using Iron Speed Designer’s built-in send email action feature in the Property Sheet.  This requires no programming or custom code.

Programmatically sending an email

However, you can also programmatically send an email when a button is clicked in an application.  The easiest way to implement this is to override the Button_Click() method in the TableControl class.

Step 1:  Using the Application Wizard in Iron Speed Designer, create a set of application pages using a database table such as the Orders table in the Northwind database.

Step 2:  Use the Application Explorer to open the ShowOrdersTable.aspx page.

Step 3:  In the Layout Editor, select the Orders table panel and drag a Button control from the Toolbox onto the page next to the Export button.

Step 4:  Select the newly added Button control and set these properties via the Property Sheet:

Group

Property

Setting

[Application Generation]

Button action

Custom

Appearance

Text

myButton

Behavior

CausesValidation

Enable client-side validation

True

Step 5:  Override the Button_Click() method in the OrdersTableControl class, located in:

...\<Application Folder>\App_Code\Orders\ShowOrdersTable.Controls.cs or .vb

C#:

public override void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs args)

{

     try

     {

          BaseClasses.Utils.MailSender email = new BaseClasses.Utils.MailSender();

          email.AddFrom("[email protected]");

          email.AddTo("[email protected]");

          email.AddBCC("[email protected]");

          email.SetSubject("Confirmation");

          email.SetContent("Thank you for your request");

          email.SendMessage();

     }

     catch (System.Exception ex)

     {

          BaseClasses.Utils.MiscUtils.RegisterJScriptAlert(this, "UNIQUE_SCRIPTKEY", ex.Message);

     }

}

Visual Basic .NET:

Public Overrides Sub Button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As EventArgs)

     Try

          Dim email As BaseClasses.Utils.MailSender = New BaseClasses.Utils.MailSender

          email.AddFrom("[email protected]")

          email.AddTo("[email protected]")

          email.AddBCC("[email protected]")

          email.SetSubject("Confirmation")

          email.SetContent("Thank you for your request")

          email.SendMessage()

     Catch ex As Exception

          BaseClasses.Utils.MiscUtils.RegisterJScriptAlert(Me, "UNIQUE_SCRIPTKEY", ex.Message)

     End Try

End Sub

Step 6:  You may need to configure your email server authentication to accept emails sent from your application program.

See Also

Send Password by Email

Emailing the Contents of a Page

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