Send email with attachment from vb.net windows application

[shil]

Hi,

I'm using FW 2.0 to send an email with an attachment using
System.Net.Mail class. If I try to attach a file from my file system,
I could successfully send the eamil. But I need to generate a report
on the fly and send an email with that report as an attachment. Here
is the code I have.

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Dim Server as string, File as string
Dim mailClient As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient()
Dim msgFrom As String, msgTo As String, msgBody As String, msgSubject
As String

msgFrom = "(e-mail address removed)"
msgTo = "(e-mail address removed)"
msgSubject = "Your Report"
msgBody = "Attached is your report:"

Dim msg As New Net.Mail.MailMessage(msgFrom, msgTo, msgSubject,
msgBody)

mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = True
mailClient.Host = "SMTPServer"
mailClient.Port = "25"

Server = "http://MyServer/Root/"
File = Server & "GenerateReport.aspx?ReportID=1"

msg.Attachments.Add(New Attachment(File, "text/plain"))

mailClient.Send(msg)
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When I execute the above code, I get an error "URI formats are not
supported."
But if I attach a file from my file system, it works fine.

Can any one direct me in a right direction?

Thanks.

 

[sloan]

Server = "http://MyServer/Root/"
File = Server & "GenerateReport.aspx?ReportID=1"


That's not a file (like "C:\myfile.txt")
That's a URL.


If you want to do that, I think you have to use the http classes , and write
the url results to a file.


Do a search for "screen scraping", and you'll see how that is done.