Class MailMessage: reference a CSS in a newsletter

[Michel Couche]

Hello,

I am starting the development of a newsletter
The use of the class MailMessage of System.Net.Mail is quite straightforward for usual contact forms but my question here is "How can I reference a CSS file in the header of my newsletter message ?"

Here is where I am ....

(1) I found a way to reference a web page in the body of the message (ref: http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.2.aspx)

Dim mail As New MailMessage()
.....
Dim url As String = "http://www.MySite.com/MyPage.html"
mail.Body = HttpContent(url)
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
mail.UrlContentBase = url
.....
Actually I would like to programmatically build the Body and therefore this solution lacks flexibility in my scenario


(2) I also looked at the Headers, UrlContentLocation and UrlContentBase properties as possible solutions to add a reference to a CSS file but found to practical answer to my question.

Thanks in advance for your support,

Michel

 

[Chris Fulstow]

This areticle has some great tips for building HTML newsletters:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/

The best solution is to use inline CSS, rather than link to an external
stylesheet.