SharePoint User Group UK

Hi

I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to use:

Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.SendEmail

in code.

basically, I am writing a custom workflow in VS2008. If you drag the workflow object "SendEmail" and generate its handler you can use the method stub created to set the properties of the email that is to be sent.

In my workflow after most tasks are completed, an email needs to be sent. So I am basically, wondering if I could code it in other methods as opposed to having to include several sendEmail objects and code each method for it.

I have googled this and I can't find out if I can do this or not

Many thanks

As russell pointed out its pretty simple to do it in code yourself. Just put it in a library you can reuse in other projects.

Heres another example

public static void SendMail(SPWeb web, string from, string to, string subject, string body)

{

MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from,to);

message.Subject = subject;

message.Body = body;

message.IsBodyHtml = true;

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(web.Site.WebApplication.OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Name);

client.Send(message);

}

Colin Byrne

http://blogs.flexnetconsult.co.uk/colinbyrne

Richie, I wrote a short blog post on how to use the SPUtility.SendEmail method that might also be of use to you, But only if you don't want to send attachments!

Using this method has the advantage of letting SharePoint control all of the SMTP side of things without having to pull out the data from the Config object.

http://www.myfatblog.co.uk/?p=79

Paul.