After following the examples in the book, I figured I wanted to add some extra functionality to the Membership and UserProfiling section.
While it allows your users to signup smoothly and simply, using a CreateUserWizard, I wanted to add an option where my site sends the user a link with a GUID embedded in it, in order to verify that the user didn't only fill in a properly formatted E-mail address, but actually does own the mail address that was entered.
I went off on my merry way, using a code snippet from my local installation of MSDN as a basis:
e.Message.Body.Replace("<%PasswordQuestion%>", Createuserwizard1.Question);
e.Message.Body.Replace("<%PasswordAnswer%>", Createuserwizard1.Answer);
So my code became:
protected void SendMail(object sender, MailMessageEventArgs e)
{
// Generate a GUID
string guidResult = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
// Code to paste into a URL, which I cannot paste cause Blogger throws a fit.
e.Message.IsBodyHtml = true;
e.Message.Body.Replace("<%Link%>", url);
}
After running the code, nothing happened. I set a breakpoint and tried again. Nothing. I commented out several options that the book carried as extra steps that I thought might interfere. Still nothing.
I then tried hooking the UserCreated event to the SendMail event that I defined, but ran into trouble when trying to create EmailEventargs to pass as a parameter.
And luckily, then I googled on "CreateUserWizard MailMessageEventArgs", and came across Bryant's blog.
The last line of code now reads:
e.Message.Body = e.Message.Body.Replace("<%Link%>", url);
And lo and behold, problem solved, and I find a neat link included in my mail :)
Bryant, I owe you a beer!
And to those still unconvinced by the Internet, I predict that some day it will be a big hit!
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