Creating HTML from a DataTable using C#

Question

I need to be able to pass HTML data into Outlook like this:

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.Body = myBody;

Initially, I th

Answer 1

There are a number of ways to output the HTML.

If this is a relatively easy format (not much formatting, styles etc.) I would definitely go with @mservidio's suggestion.

If the output is more complex and you have experience with ASP.NET you can go the route of a UserControl which allows more flexibility and management of the output. You can then render the output of the control to HTML like this:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter tw = new StringWriter(sb);
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(tw);

ctrl.RenderControl(hw);
return sb.ToString();