Can I email a aspx page. My requirement is to have some input controls and submit button in the email and let user enter values and update the database on click of the button.

Regards

 Hi,

I think we can't send the aspx page in a mail and accept the values and update it..

But we can do it web services..way.. 

If your not speaking about it. then

Do you want to pass the value while sending mail?

post your scenario with details 

 I want to get some values from user and want to update the database.

For eg:

I send user a mail with few questions having a set of options for each of the questions  to choose. On click of a button I need to get the option he choosed and then update the database.

Any Ideas. 

hanimv:

 I want to get some values from user and want to update the database.

I send user a mail with few questions having a set of options for each of the questions  to choose. On click of a button I need to get the option he choosed and then update the database.

Hi hanimv,

Base on my experience, you can do it, but it not easy.

As private opinions, I think the key to solve your problem is how to send email with html(Radio control is an html control), and how to get, read and analyse an email, and get the needed values and store it to database.

To know send eamil with html is easy, you can refer this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Mail_Webpage_with_images.aspx .

But it is hard to solve the second problem!

To sovle the second problem, you'd better use the third party code.

I ever use an open source called "OpenPOP3.net", please checkout this link: http://devgg.com/forums/t/1154.aspx. and see my answer:

OpenPop3.net is an open source, and I have ever use it wrote an email system.

To know more about OpenPop3.net, please checkout this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpop3/

So you can use this open source to analyse mails content, and catch the value, and than store values to database.

Let me know if I have misunderstood what you mean. Thanks.

Hope it helps,

Hong Gang

hanimv:

Can I email a aspx page. My requirement is to have some input controls and submit button in the email and let user enter values and update the database on click of the button.

Regards

Hi hanimv,

From your description, I understand that you want to create an application which would send a mail automatically,
and the mail should has a web form page as its body content, the mail receiver can submit the form to a
server by click a button.

Please feel free to correct me if I have misunderstood your concern.

Based on my experience, it is not appropriate way to put a web form in a mail body, perhaps the user does
not open the mail with a web browser, therefore, the form would not been posted to the server. I want to
give you a suggestion that put a URL link in mail body, and then the user can open the page with a browser.

Regards,
Xun.

Thank you both for understanding my problem exactly and giving valuable suggestions.

I think i better  mail a html page with links so that i can handle it on site. But still I am going to giv a try with the tool Hang suggested.

Thanks once again 

Regards Hanimv