Mail Templates
I'm developping a module to send an automatic feedback e-mail to customers. The old version in plain ASP just used an HTML-document and replaced certain fields with the right value. Like {name} for instance with the customer's name.
But I think that in ASP.Net, this is way old-fashioned. I want to use full Web Forms, for example:
MailTemplate1.aspx
<html>
<body>
Hello <span id="customername" runat="server" /><br />
Thank you for your feedback!
</body>
</html>
As you can see, this is a full page and so using a control is not a right solution in my eyes. After all, it is a page, so I want to use a System.Web.UI.Page.
The ThankYouForFeedBack.aspx page would then have to to something like this:
MailTemplate1 MT= new MailTemplate1();
MT.customername.innerText = strCustomerName; // this line will fail, see below
SendMail(strCustomerEmail, I'm developping a module to send an automatic feedback e-mail to customers. The old version in plain ASP just used an HTML-document and replaced certain fields with the right value. Like {name} for instance with the customer's name.
But I think that in ASP.Net, this is way old-fashioned. I want to use full Web Forms, for example:
MailTemplate1.aspx
<html>
<body>
Hello <span id="customername" runat="server" /><br />
Thank you for your feedback!
</body>
</html>
As you can see, this is a full page and so using a control is not a right solution in my eyes. After all, it is a page, so I want to use a System.Web.UI.Page.
The ThankYouForFeedBack.aspx page would then have to to something like this:
MailTemplate1 MT= new MailTemplate1();
MT.customername.innerText = strCustomerName; // this line will fail, see below
SendMail(strCustomerEmail, RenderContents(MT));
It's obvious that I'm looking for the dummy "RenderContents" function. I didn't manage to to it with the Page.Render method, since the page does NOT get loaded if you create a page dynamically like on the first line of code. (Output is thus an empty string) Because of this too, the second line of code WILL PRODUCE AN ERROR, since customername points to nothing because the page doensn't actually get loaded.
Does anyone have an idea?
Classic ASP And Excel Templates
I am a web developer writing a classic asp website that uses an excel document.
The way it works is that I have pre-filled out excel document sitting on the server that I would like to use as a template excel file.
What is to happen is that a visitor fills out a web form on the website and then the information from the web form is passed to the excel document and the blank spaces are filled in and the excel file is saved on the server.
I can create a blank basic excel document through asp no problems however I am not sure how to open an existing excel file, amend data to it and re save it again.
Also how do i access various cols & rows of the excel file through asp code. this will help me place the form data exactely where the data needs to go in the excel document.
HTML Page Templates
Is this affective way using HTML Templates in ASP:
I have html template file with <<TAG1>> .. <<TAGN>> in places, where I want to insert some data then i generate this data in asp:
Dim d ' Create a variable.
Set d = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
d.Add "TAG1", "Athens" ' Add some keys and items.
d.Add "TAG2", "Belgrade"
d.Add "TAG3", "Cairo"
, open html template, replace each <<TAGx>> with generated data
(d.Item("TAGx") ),
and print it with Response.Write
Or there is any other usual methods to use templates?
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