Chapter 12. Automating the E-mailing of Product Information with ASP.NET

IN THIS CHAPTER

Objectives

  • Learn how product information e-mailing was implemented in MyGolfGear.NET

  • Learn about the System.Web.Mail class

  • Understand the changes made to the product details page to support this functionality

  • Learn about the e-mail page created to support the e-mailing of product information

An interesting feature of some of today's more popular business-to-consumer (B2C) e-Commerce sites is the capability to e-mail product information to someone. MyGolfGear.NET offers this functionality to its users, and this chapter will cover this feature.

To accomplish this functionality, we took four simple steps. First, we added a new asp:HyperLink tag to the ProductDetails.aspx ...

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