How to trigger automated emails from MVC application with pdf attachment the content of which is a dynamic web page

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I am working on a ASP.Net MVC Web application.
My requirement is to trigger automated emails daily at specific time with pdf attachment. I have a custom web page, the contents of which changes hour by hour. This pages content should go into pdf attachment. This page can also have charts, grids etc.
Please suggest.

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I am working on a ASP.Net MVC Web application.
My requirement is to trigger automated emails daily at specific time with pdf attachment. I have a custom web page, the contents of which changes hour by hour. This pages content should go into pdf attachment. This page can also have charts, grids etc.
Please suggest.

Posted 8-Jul-18 19:02pm

goshan2011

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 9-Jul-18 2:45am

First solve the 'Web page to PDF' problem than come back...

ZurdoDev 9-Jul-18 14:18pm

You have several different issues and need to tackle each one separately. Where exactly are you stuck?

goshan2011 10-Jul-18 0:03am

ok will focus on html to pdf conversion first. I have an action method that calls a web page. My requirement is once every day, this action method needs to be called, and this html should be converted to a pdf and saved in a location (this process should be automated- for automation i am thinking to use Hangfire as a back ground job processor).
For this i can go either for itextsharp and rotativa, not sure which one is good. Rotativa gives direct method for converting action to a pdf. But in some blog i read that it was not working on server. Even before that the version 1.7.4 installed from nuget is a failure, blogs are suggesting to use its pre release version , not sure if pre release versions works fine or not on server.It would be of great help if some one can help me in guidance pls.

ZurdoDev 10-Jul-18 8:14am

1. I have used iTextsharp before and have seen that a lot of people use it. I don't know rotativa.
2. I don't know Hangfire, but you may want to move the logic of your code into a separate class outside of the mvc project so that it can be easily called from elsewhere. Otherwise you have to simulate someone browsing to that page (action).

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