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 Hello,

I've made a customfield type c#.
When there occures an error, i wan't the customfield type to send a mail to the administrator.

Is this possible?

I've tryed to open the default-email client from the client's pc but it won't work, i think it's blocked by sharepoint to start an new proces.

Any one an idee or an other way to report errors?

 Thanks

 Spdaneels

Hi, spdaneels

I am not very sure if this solution can solve your problem, because your requirement is not very clear in your description.

http://www.sharepointboost.com/alerttutorial.html

It can set sending conditions and include email addresses as sending targets. I think your custom field type may be included into the sending conditions, and I hope it can help you!

Hi Daissyy,

i'll try to explain a bit more,

I've a custom field type in c#. The field is dropdownlist with information from an sql server.
Sometimes there is an error when the customfield try's to get it's information from the sql server.
Now is the question, is there some code in c# to automatic mail the error code to the administrator.
Alert is not an option.

thx

Hello,

Not sure I understand the problem properly, but if you have code that fails, you should at least wrap it in try-catch blocks. That way you can catch any exception and send email, log to event log, hack the pentagon, or whatever you desire, whenever an exception is raised.

.b

Thx for your reply,

There is already a try catch and in the catch i want to send a mail to the admin, But i don't know how.

That's what i'm looking for.

Thx

Oh... Well, look at my article at http://furuknap.blogspot.com/2008/07/send-sharepoint-document-library-file.html where you will find code to send email from SharePoint, or any .net app for that matter, at bit down on the page. Code begins in code line 52 :-)

.b

i'll try that code.

Now i first need to find out what the mail server is and what the mailport is on for my mail server.

Thx for the fast reply !!