generated pdf download and send to a email id using iTextSha

Mohammad Aman

10y898.NET

I am using iTextSharp to generate pdf file but i want to send that pdf to a email address. How can send generated pdf file to email using my given code. Please help me.

How to send pdf in email using MailSender() function.

Using sw As New StringWriter()

Using hw As New HtmlTextWriter(sw)

repeaterName.RenderControl(hw)

Dim sr As New StringReader(sw.ToString())

Dim pdfDoc As New Document(PageSize.A4, 50.0F, 50.0F, 40.0F, 50.0F)

Dim writer As PdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream)

pdfDoc.Open()

XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, pdfDoc, sr)

pdfDoc.Close()

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"

Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" + ViewState("BillNo").ToString() + "_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss") + ".pdf")

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache)

Response.Write(pdfDoc)

Response.End()

End Using

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Shubham Kumar10y ago
Pardon for the link which i given here is the link for mail send with attachment

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/How-to-send-email-with-attachment-in-ASPNet.aspx
Mohammad Aman10y ago
Hello Shubham, I saw your given link but it is for only generate and download pdf file . this is not sending pdf file in any email address.
Can you tell ? how can store downloaded pdf file path in a ViewState or string variable ?
Shubham Kumar10y ago
hi, aman when you write the pdf on the server folder or local just take path of pdf in viewstate or in a string after that when you send the mail just attach the path to mail function and after sending the mail delete the file form folder

here is the link for send mail with attachment

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/How-to-generate-and-download-PDF-Report-from-database-in-ASPNet-using-iTextSharp-C-and-VBNet.aspx