How Do I Put A Gridview Into An Email Body With Vb In A Windows Forms App?

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Hey! I Just need to be able to put in a gridview into an email body, open the email client that would send it, and in the client it opens a new email with the gridview in the body. I can code in VB, but all I am finding online is with asp.net using html. I can convert my gridview into an html file but idk where to go from there. PLEASE HELP lol. The gridview I have is also from ComponentOne, not that that matters. I feel like there should be a pretty simple way to do this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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My main problem is that I can convert my gridview into an html FILE, but I don't know how to load it into the email body. When I say file I mean I have outputted the gridview to a .html in a folder on my computer. I can open it and it shows the gridview. I need that table in the body of the email, not as an attachment.

Posted 20-Mar-15 5:48am

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Updated 21-Mar-15 2:12am

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[no name] 20-Mar-15 12:12pm

So what is it exactly that you need help with? Sending an email?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-03-20T06:26:00

Represent your grid view as HTML (whatever it is; it this is ASP.NET, you grid view is already HTML table) and send the message with Content-type "text/html", which will be automatically done if you set this property:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.mailmessage.isbodyhtml(v=vs.110).aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.mailmessage%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

Alternatively, you can use mail parts or alternative views and use this content type only for a view or a part:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.alternateview(v=vs.110).aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.attachment(v=vs.110).aspx[^].

Attachments (mentioned above) can have different ContentDisposition properties, so you can instruct the mail client to show the part inline, or make it as downloadable or separately-viewed attachment, and so on. Please see:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.attachment.contentdisposition%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mime.contentdisposition%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

—SA