> Hello everyone-
>
> I am hoping a couple of you will have some ideas on this one...
>
> I have a webform created in visual basic 2005.
> Basically, the webform gather answers to the questions asked on the form and
> included a couple free type multine textboxes.
>
> When the user presses submit an message is created with the responses and
> fired off to a MS Exchange mail enabled public folder.
>
> This is an external webform btw, not used by internal users.
>
> Problem:
> After some fighting, I have the mail message formatted pretty as it was
> requested and I have it coming in HTML form:  MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = True
> For the most part.
>
> My hang up is the couple free text multi line text boxes don't word wrap so
> well (all the time).
> When I view them, using MS Outlook 2007 those sections word wrap just fine
> in the public folder post.  However, are admins in the other sections, using
> MS Outlook 2003, do not show the word wrap.
>
> Outlook 2007 on my pc and Outlook 2003 on their pc are set to view messages
> in HTML mode.  As far as I can tell, other then being different versions -
> are settings are similar.
>
> Not sure if there is something I could do programmatically to get around
> this issue or not?
>
> Again, everything seems great - except those couple multiline text box
> objects....
>
> I tried playing around with the html <PRE> tags and that didn't even help.
>
> I been digging through blogs and other posts for about 2 hours now - no luck.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

"rowe_newsgroups" <rowe_em***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Apr 30, 1:54 pm, Tony Wissler <Tony
> Wiss***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone-
> You could use regex to match the text in each line of the multiline
> textbox, then add a <br /> tag to the end of each line.
>
> This assumes an Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions:
>
>    ' This is typed in the message so it may contain errors
>
>    Dim output as String = ""
>    For Each m as Match in Regex.Matches(me.TextBox1.Text, "(?=[^\r
> \n]).*(?<![\r\n])", RegexOptions.Multiline))
>        output &= String.Format("{0}<br />", m.Value)
>    Next
>    ' Then just use the "output" string in your email

"Jeff" wrote:

>
> "rowe_newsgroups" <rowe_em***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1177958321.511000.253020@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> > On Apr 30, 1:54 pm, Tony Wissler <Tony
> > Wiss***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone-
> > You could use regex to match the text in each line of the multiline
> > textbox, then add a <br /> tag to the end of each line.
> >
> > This assumes an Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions:
> >
> >    ' This is typed in the message so it may contain errors
> >
> >    Dim output as String = ""
> >    For Each m as Match in Regex.Matches(me.TextBox1.Text, "(?=[^\r
> > \n]).*(?<![\r\n])", RegexOptions.Multiline))
> >        output &= String.Format("{0}<br />", m.Value)
> >    Next
> >    ' Then just use the "output" string in your email
>
> Perhaps I didn't fully understand the question, but I'm doing something
> similar myself and what worked for me was to simply scan for vbcrlf in the
> textbox text and then replace with both a duplicate vbcrlf and a <br> tag.
> I'm still new to email creation, but this seems to permit the proper viewing
> by both html enabled email software that seems to ignore the vbcrlf and by
> plain-text only software the ignores the html tags.
>
> It is similar in function to the above, but much easier to code. My code is
> below
>
> Msg = Replace(Msg, vbCrLf, vbCrLf & "<br>")
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> --
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>
>

"Tony Wissler" <TonyWiss***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Jeff-
>
> Thanks for the info, I gave this a try and it worked great for what I
> wanted
> to do.
> The formatting looks good now in both MS Outlook 2007 and MS Outlook 2003.
>
> Regular Expressions is probably the best way (as mentioned above), but I
> went this route for ease of readability and I am not concerned about speed
> on
> this particular web form as I don't see the traffic being that extreme.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Tony Wissler

"rowe_newsgroups" wrote:

> On Apr 30, 1:54 pm, Tony Wissler <Tony
> Wiss***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone-
> >
> > I am hoping a couple of you will have some ideas on this one...
> >
> > I have a webform created in visual basic 2005.
> > Basically, the webform gather answers to the questions asked on the form and
> > included a couple free type multine textboxes.
> >
> > When the user presses submit an message is created with the responses and
> > fired off to a MS Exchange mail enabled public folder.
> >
> > This is an external webform btw, not used by internal users.
> >
> > Problem:
> > After some fighting, I have the mail message formatted pretty as it was
> > requested and I have it coming in HTML form:  MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = True
> > For the most part.
> >
> > My hang up is the couple free text multi line text boxes don't word wrap so
> > well (all the time).
> > When I view them, using MS Outlook 2007 those sections word wrap just fine
> > in the public folder post.  However, are admins in the other sections, using
> > MS Outlook 2003, do not show the word wrap.
> >
> > Outlook 2007 on my pc and Outlook 2003 on their pc are set to view messages
> > in HTML mode.  As far as I can tell, other then being different versions -
> > are settings are similar.
> >
> > Not sure if there is something I could do programmatically to get around
> > this issue or not?
> >
> > Again, everything seems great - except those couple multiline text box
> > objects....
> >
> > I tried playing around with the html <PRE> tags and that didn't even help.
> >
> > I been digging through blogs and other posts for about 2 hours now - no luck.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I might embarrass myself with this on-the-fly Regex pattern, but here
> it goes:
>
> You could use regex to match the text in each line of the multiline
> textbox, then add a <br /> tag to the end of each line.
>
> This assumes an Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions:
>
>     ' This is typed in the message so it may contain errors
>
>     Dim output as String = ""
>     For Each m as Match in Regex.Matches(me.TextBox1.Text, "(?=[^\r
> \n]).*(?<![\r\n])", RegexOptions.Multiline))
>         output &= String.Format("{0}<br />", m.Value)
>     Next
>     ' Then just use the "output" string in your email
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth Rowe
>
>