I need to send out an Outlook calendar appointment from a web app that I have. That is all working fine, except I cannot get the format that I want. It seems that Outlook transforms HTML to RTF and things like tables, etc dont render properly. Here is a sample of what I would like the email to look like.
– Application Production Release Details:
RFC Ticket #: XXXXX Project / Release Name: XXXX
Release Date: 2/22/2012 Release Time: 10:00PM
CAB Approval Status: Approved
Contact Information:
Project / Team Lead: XXXXXXX On Call DSE: XXXXX
Phone: XXXXXXX Phone: XXXXXXX
Migration Instructions:
Step 1: Browse to RMT Home Page:
Step 2: Under PRODUCTION Servers Section, Select the below mentioned Deploy Dashboard
Step 3: Login using your Network Credentials
Step 4: Press the Migrate button adjacent to the Application listed below
Step 5: Enter RFC Number and Hit Migrate
Step 6: Wait for the e-Mail notification OR Use the Refresh Status button to check the Migration Status on the dashboard
Step 7: Logout
Load Balanced Environment: Repeat Steps for PROD-2 Server (Production Server are load balanced if below entry says PROD-1 / PROD-2)
Deploy Dashboard(s) Application
High Availability PROD-1 / PROD-2 ClaimsSupport
High Availability PROD-1 / PROD-2 PolicySupport
Connections WesternStateQQ
AgentSite PROD-1 / PROD-2 EBQ.BA
Notice how nice and neat this is? I could simply do this with HTML tables, but the rendering gets wonky everytime (most noticeably at the bottom where it shows Servers and Applications, since the fields are variable length, there is no way easily but spaces at the end). Is there a work around this issue? I am already adding an AlternateView to the MailMessage for html as well as set the IsBodyHTML to true. Here is my message code
SmtpClient sc = new SmtpClient("server");
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("email@t.com", "email@t.com");
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("email@t.com", "email@t.com"));
msg.Subject = release.RFCTicket + " Instructions";
msg.Body = "Here are the migration instructions";
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCALENDAR");
str.AppendLine("PRODID:-//");
str.AppendLine("VERSION:2.0");
str.AppendLine("METHOD:REQUEST");
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine("DTSTART:" + Convert.ToDateTime(release.ReleaseDateString + " " + release.ReleaseTimeString).ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyyMMdd\\THHmmss\\Z"));
str.AppendLine("DTSTAMP:" + DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyyMMdd\\THHmmss\\Z"));
str.AppendLine("DTEND:" + Convert.ToDateTime(release.ReleaseDateString + " " + release.ReleaseTimeString).ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyyMMdd\\THHmmss\\Z"));
str.AppendLine("LOCATION: Call");
str.AppendLine(string.Format("UID:{0}", Guid.NewGuid()));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DESCRIPTION:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("SUMMARY:{0}", msg.Subject));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("ORGANIZER:MAILTO:{0}", msg.From.Address));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("ATTENDEE;CN=\"{0}\";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:{1}", msg.To[0].DisplayName, msg.To[0].Address));
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("TRIGGER:-PT15M");
str.AppendLine("ACTION:DISPLAY");
str.AppendLine("DESCRIPTION:Reminder");
str.AppendLine("END:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("END:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine("END:VCALENDAR");
System.Net.Mime.ContentType ct = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");
ct.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");
AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str.ToString(), ct);
msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal);
AlternateView body1 = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(body, new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/html"));
msg.AlternateViews.Add(body1);
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
sc.Send(msg);
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
