asp.net mvc 4 letter from site add attachment - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have feedback form on my site, it looks like
I created model for my form
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace CorePartners_Site2.Models
{
public class FeedbackForm
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
public string Phone { get; set; }
public string Company { get; set; }
public string AdditionalInformation { get; set; }
[FileExtensions(Extensions = "doc,txt,pdf")]
public HttpPostedFileBase ProjectInformation { get; set; }
}
}
and created view
#using (Html.BeginForm("Feedback", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "feedback-form" }))
{
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, null, new { #class = "text-field" })
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Email, null, new { #class = "text-field" })
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Phone, null, new { #class = "text-field" })
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Company, null, new { #class = "text-field" })
#Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.AdditionalInformation, new { cols="1", rows="1" })
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.ProjectInformation, null, new { type="file", #class="input-file" })
<em><b>Send</b></em>
}
I'd like to know will my form work with a for submit instead <input type="submit" /> ?
And I dont know how to make attachment to letter,
I tried to make
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Feedback()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Feedback(FeedbackForm Model)
{
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage msg = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
msg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
msg.From = new MailAddress(Model.Email, #Resources.Global.Feedback_Email_Title);
msg.To.Add("tayna-anita#mail.ru");
string message = #Resources.Global.Feedback_Name + ": " + Model.Name + "\n"
+ #Resources.Global.Feedback_Email + ": " + Model.Email + "\n"
+ #Resources.Global.Feedback_Phone + ": " + Model.Phone + "\n"
+ #Resources.Global.Feedback_Company + ": " + Model.Company + "\n\n"
+ Model.AdditionalInformation;
msg.Body = message;
msg.IsBodyHtml = false;
//Attachment
if (Model.ProjectInformation != null)
{
HttpPostedFileBase attFile = Model.ProjectInformation;
int attachFileLength = attFile.ContentLength;
if (attachFileLength > 0)
{
string strFileName = Path.GetFileName(Model.ProjectInformation.FileName);
Model.ProjectInformation.SaveAs(Server.MapPath(strFileName));
MailAttachment attach = new MailAttachment(Server.MapPath(strFileName));
msg.Attachments.Add(attach);
string attach1 = strFileName;
}
}
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.mail.ru", 25);
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.EnableSsl = false;
try
{
client.Send(msg);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
FeedbackForm tempForm = new FeedbackForm();
return View(tempForm);
}
but it shows a mistake in msg.Attachments.Add(attach); and it seems it will not work.

Answer 1

Well to answer your first question yes you can use an anchor tag in place of a submit input.
You will want to disable the tags default behaviour with javascript/jquery like this and then have it submit the form:
$(function () {
$('a.something').on("click", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('feedback-form').submit();
});
});
The error you are receiving is because you are using the wrong object type for the msg.attachments.add() method. You need to use an Attachment object not a MailAttachment object.
Something like this:
Stream attachmentStream = File.OpenRead (file);
streams.Add (attachmentStream);
mail.Attachments.Add (new Attachment (attachmentStream, Path.GetFileName (file));