Sending Meeting Requests to Outlook via ASP.NET Mail Message

 

      现在一般的企业级应用都有需要向用户发送约会邀请的功能需求，下面我们就来讲讲如何通过asp.net来发送约会邀请到outlook 中。

现在这方面的第三方库比较多，我用的是DDay.iCal.它现在对于各个版本的outlook都支持良好，并且不依赖于office interop组件。下面

就来看一下具体的实现细节吧。

 

public void Sendmail_With_IcsAttachment() { MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(); //Now we have to set the value to Mail message properties //Note Please change it to correct mail-id to use this in your application msg.From = new MailAddress(SmtpAccount, "ABC"); msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(TestAccount, "BCD")); //msg.CC.Add(new MailAddress("zzzzz@xyz.com", "DEF"));// it is optional, only if required msg.Subject = "Send mail with ICS file as an Attachment"; msg.Body = "Please Attend the meeting with this schedule"; // Now Contruct the ICS file using string builder StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder(); str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCALENDAR"); str.AppendLine("PRODID:-//Schedule a Meeting"); str.AppendLine("VERSION:2.0"); str.AppendLine("METHOD:REQUEST"); str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VEVENT"); str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTART:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(+330))); str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTAMP:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.UtcNow)); str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTEND:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(+660))); str.AppendLine("LOCATION: " + ""); 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"); //Now sending a mail with attachment ICS file. System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtpclient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(); smtpclient.Host =SmtpHost; //-------this has to given the Mailserver IP smtpclient.Port = SmtpPort; smtpclient.EnableSsl = true; smtpclient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(SmtpAccount, SmtpPassword); // smtpclient.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials; System.Net.Mime.ContentType contype = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar"); contype.Parameters.Add("method", "PUBLISH"); // contype.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST"); contype.Parameters.Add("name", "Meeting.ics"); AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str.ToString(), contype); msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal); smtpclient.Send(msg); } 

 

只要把邮件配置搞好，就能发送约会邀请了。下面来看看效果吧

 

是不是效果还不错，不过我还要补充一点就是使用AlternateView 可能会影响原来的设置属性也就是说

我之前设置的msg.IsBodyHtml=true.在我使用 System.Net.Mime.ContentType contype = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");后就不起作用了，这个问题我查了很多资料也浪费了大量的

时间，最后我使用了两个AlternateView 来实现我文本的不同编码形式。就是把msg.Body="some content";

放在一个AlternateView 中。代码如下

 

System.Net.Mime.ContentType htmlContype = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/html"); AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(content, htmlContype); msg.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView); System.Net.Mime.ContentType contype = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar"); contype.Parameters.Add("name", "MeetingRequest.ics"); AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(meetingRequestion, contype); msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal); 

 

希望这段代码能为你节省不少的时间。

 

想要深入了解的同学，可以访问以下链接

http://kobikobi.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/sending-meeting-requests-to-outlook-via-aspnet-mail-message/