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This article was orignially posted to http://furuknap.blogspot.com/2008/07/send-sharepoint-document-library-file.html

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Scope
Ok,dead space chapter 5, so what is our scope. I want to have some way of sending an individual file from a SharePoint library to someone. The file should be sent as an attachment and I should just have to enter the recipients email and perhaps a message.

To accomplish this I want to add a choice to the drop-down menu that appears on a library item when you hover-and-click a library item.

Clicking on that item should open up a form that I can use to fill out recipient address and a message. When I click a Send button on that page I should return to the list.

Let's get down to business.

Solution walk-through
For this project I will use WSPBuilder that I wrote about in my Basic setup of SharePoint Visual Studio project article. Make sure you have WSPBuilder with the Visual Studio extensions installed,google play station, it will save you tons of work and make SharePoint development a joy. So much for advertising.

Our ingredients:

- One visual studio 2005 or 2008.
- WSPBuilder with Visual Studio Extensions.
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- .Net Reflector
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Step 1: Setup

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Third,xbox for sale, add references to your project. Right-click the References in solution explorer and add references to Windows SharePoint Services (microsoft.sharepoint.dll) and System.Web.

Finally,download pc games for free, create a new blank ASPX page to your solution. This page will be the custom form we will use to input the recipients email and the message text. To do so,good mmorpg, first right-click on the 12\Template folder under your project in the solution explorer. Click Add->New folder and call it Layouts. No,cars game, you cannot call this anything else,phone apps, it must be named Layouts. This folder largely corresponds to the _layouts virtual directory in SharePoint and we want to put our file there to make it available everywhere. Next,y8 racing, right-click the layouts folder and click Add->New item. Again,about xbox 360, browse to the Visual C# Project items and find a Text file item. There is no ASPX page item to add to a non-website project,xbox 36o, but we can still get one by naming our new text file SendAsEmail.aspx. Or something else,galaxy tab, the important thing is to call it [something].aspx.

Now to start the actual development.

Step 2: Create a custom action feature

Open the empty feature you created in step 1. Browse to the folder in the solution explorer and open the elements.xml file. In the elements.xml file,sports car games, add the following code:

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2 <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
3 <CustomAction Title="Send as email"
4 Id="SendAsEmailECB"
5 RegistrationType="List"
6 RegistrationId="101"
7 ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/MSG16.GIF"
8 Location="EditControlBlock"
9 Sequence="225">
10 <UrlAction Url="~site/_layouts/SendAsEmail.aspx?ItemId={ItemId}&ListId={ListId}" />
11 </CustomAction>
12
13 </Elements>

The customaction element allows you to modify action menus all around SharePoint. There are a few lines here that are critical to accomplish what we want. Line 5,angry bird go, RegistrationType,x box 360, states that we want this to be linked to a list,real deal racing, and line 6,plasma cutter dead space, RegistrationId,dead space 2 ign, states that the list type should be from template 101 or Document Library. If you develop your own list templates you can link a custom action to only that particular list by modifying RegistrationId to match you template type. List 8,download subway surfers free, Location,thor comic book, states that we want to add this to the EditControlBlock. That's the name of the hover-and-lick menu where we want our custom action to appear.

Inside the CustomActions element we have a URL Action element. That simply tells SharePoint what should happen when we click that link. If you notice the Url-attribute it holds two tokens,cut the rope the game, ItemId and ListId. these tokens will be filled in for us by SharePoint. Tokens are widely used in SharePoint so I wont go into them in detail here,how to download temple run, these two should be self-explanatory. Perhaps I will write an article on tokens one day.

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Step 3: Create the asp.net page to get input from user

Open the SendAsEmail.aspx page from the Layouts folder. Now,fruit ninja, I am extremely far from being a designer,download pandora, and I believe in separating code from design in any case so I'll just make this extremely simple design-wise. There are a few things that we will need to do,pandora music download, though.

First,vietnam war games, paste the following code into the aspx-file. Make sure you are in code view and not in design view:

<>
<>

<asp:Content ID="main" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderMain">

<table>
<tr><td><asp:label runat="server" ID="lblSendTo" Text="Send to:"/></td><td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtSendTo" /></td></tr>
<tr><td><asp:label runat="server" ID="lblMessage" Text="Message:"/></td><td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtMessage" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="5" /></td></tr>
<tr><td><asp:button runat="server" ID="btnSend" Text="Send message" /></td></tr>
</table>

</asp:Content>

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Simply copy the entire strong name,free games for girls, all four parts. Paste this into the code where it says [STRONG NAME].

You may also need to edit the Inherits-attribute of the Page directive. I have written NittiTre.SendAsEmail since that is the namespace and name of the class I will be writing in the next step.

The page itself is fit into the application.master of the SharePoint site. This master page has a contentplaceholder called PlaceHolderMain in which we put a simple table with a few controls with IDs of lblSendTo,app store temple run, lblMessage,freeonline games, btnSend,angry birds free games, txtSendTo and txtMessage. You can basically hand this page over to your designer,angry bird free download, but make sure that these IDs remain the same. This is important as we will be wiring up these controls in a code-behind file,thor the dark world 3d, and if the IDs do not match we get a runtime exception.

Let's move over to the code.

Step 4: Write the class to send the email

Finally it's time to do some coding.

Start by adding a few Using statements to the top to make our code a bit more readable:

1 using System;
2 using System.Collections.Generic;
3 using System.Text;
4 using System.Web.UI;
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6 using System.Net.Mail;
7 using Microsoft.SharePoint;
8 using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
9 using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

Second,clash of clans the game, make sure your class inherits from LayoutsPageBase and add some controls that will have names matching the IDs of the controls we added on the aspx page. We will also add a few variables to hold our mail server configuration:

10
11 namespace NittiTre
12 {
13 public class SendAsEmail : LayoutsPageBase
14 {
15
16 protected Label lblSendTo;
17 protected Label lblMessage;
18 protected Button btnSend;
19
20 protected TextBox txtSendTo;
21 protected TextBox txtMessage;
22
23 private string mailServer = ""; // YOU NEED TO ADD SOMETHING HERE!
24 private int mailPort = 25;
25

Ensure that you add the host name of your SMTP server in line 23.

See line 11 and 13? The namespace and the name of the class makes up what we should put in the aspx file Page inherits directive.

Since we want to have a button with an event handler we need to make sure that all our controls are created before the event handler wireup completes. A good place to do this is in the OnLoad method,subway surfer game free download, so lets override that:

26 protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
27 {
28 EnsureChildControls();
29 }
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The EnsureChildControls makes sure that CreateChildControls() are called once and only once. If you happen to call EnsureChildControls again later in the code it will not create new child controls thus saving us the trouble of finding out if the controls have been added or not.

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31 protected override void CreateChildControls()
32 {
33 btnSend.Click += new EventHandler(btnSend_Click);
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35 txtMessage.Text = "Hello,market app, this file is sent from SharePoint";
36 }
37

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42 // Find the list and item ids from the querystring
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44 {
45 Guid listId = new Guid(Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString["ListId"]));
46 int itemId = int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ItemId"]);
47
48 // Find our item from the current web
49 SPWeb web = this.Web;
50 SPListItem item = web.Lists[listId].GetItemById(itemId);
51
52 // Start building our mail message
53 string senderMail = web.CurrentUser.Email;
54 string recipientMail = txtSendTo.Text;
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56 message.Body = txtMessage.Text;
57 message.Subject = item.DisplayName;
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59 // Add the file as an attachment
60 SPFile file = item.File;
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67 Response.Clear();
68 Response.Redirect(web.Lists[listId].DefaultViewUrl);
69 }
70 catch
71 {
72 throw;
73 }
74 }
75 }
76 }

Most of this code consists of finding information about the item selected and then start building the mail message from that information along with the input from the form.

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That is it. Nothing more. Let's build,ps3 shop, deploy and activate. I've uploaded a zipped solution containing everything as written here. You can download that from http://furuknap.googlepages.com/SendAsEmail.zip. Do remember to edit your SMTP Server,free games download for android phones, that should be the only thing you need to do.

Step 4: Deploy

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Next,real race, you need to activate your feature. Open your SharePoint site and go to Site Settings. Under web features you will find your SendAsEmail feature. Click activate and your document libraries now gets the new feature of sending a document library item as an attachment.

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- Look up recipients names in an existing contact list to avoid misspelling names

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- Save user preferences for these parameters

Good luck,google play store free download, and let me know how it turns out.