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Send xsl doc in body of email

Programming would be much easier without users...
What I really need to be able to do is:
Put the content of a web page (including styles) into the body of an email and also set the subject.
OR
Send the current user an email containing the body of a web page.
I really don't care how this is implemented -- server or client side. I've not come up with any good way of client side besides trying to push the web page into the clipboard for the users to then paste into their email.
App Background
I wrote a web site using c#, ts, angular. The site manages xml documents.
The users can select a document and click the "Human Readable" button or the "XML" button. The "Human Readable" is xml with xsl to make it look pretty for the humans. The XML button is apparently for non-humans.
The "Human Readable" version opens in another browser tab.
The users want a new "email" button for emailing the human readable. The person clicking the email button has access to my web site but the recipient may not.
I've attempted educating my users to do Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, open email, Ctrl+V but this is beyond most of their capabilities.
I have tried so many different ways to accomplish this and all have failed.
I currently do a mailto link which opens their email and the body contains a link to the Human Readable.
Here's what I've tried so far -- this may not be a conclusive list of my attempts as I've been at this for a few days now.
I've tried putting a button in the human readable (xsl with javascript) in an attempt to copy the resulting html into the clipboard for the users to paste.
A button on the web site to scrape an iFrame into the clipboard
Many iterations of javascript copy/paste techniques
a c# controller that does a ReadAsStringAsync().Result function (which I will post below because I like that solution the best so far...
Option #4 I'm partial to and I got almost working -- if it weren't for that pesky xsl not getting formatted it would probably work. My results are the data being presented without xml tags and no styles.
[ActionName("PostEmailHumanReadable")]
public void EmailHumanReadable(List<DocumentVM> documents)
{
foreach (var document in documents)
{
var docId = document.document.DocId;
var docTypeId = document.document.DocTypeId;
var co = string.Empty;
var order = string.Empty;
var name = string.Empty;
var po = string.Empty;
// get the data for the subject line
using (var efUoW = new EFUnitOfWork(EDIEnvironment.EDIEnvironment.Instance.ConnectionString))
{
var doc = efUoW.DocumentRepository.GetById(docId);
co = doc.CompanyId.ToString();
var orders = efUoW.DocumentOrderRepository.GetByDocumentID(docId).ToList();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(doc.Source_Order))
order = doc.Source_Order;
else
order = "n/a";
foreach (var o in orders)
order += string.Format("{0} ", o.OrderId);
//order = string.Join(",", doc.DocumentOrders.Select(q => q.OrderId).ToList());
name = doc.BillToName;
name = doc.PurchaseOrder;
}
var subject = string.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}", co, order, name, po);
// get the human readable
var hrResponse = GetFile(docId, docTypeId);
var hrText = hrResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
// format the url
var url = string.Format("<a href='/api/Documents/Getfile?DocId={0}&DocTypeId={1}'>click here to open the jEDI Human Readable</a><br><br>", docId, docTypeId);
// find the current user's email address
var users = new List<string>();
users.Add(AppUser.ADUserName);
//var to = EmailUtility.GetEmailID(users);
// and finally send the email
EmailUtility.SendEmail(EmailUtility.GetEmailID(users), null, subject, url + hrText);
}
}
[ActionName("GetFile")]
public HttpResponseMessage GetFile(int DocId, int DocTypeId)
{
if (DocTypeId == (int)DocumentTypeEnum.EDI850)
{
using (var efUoW = new Factory_UOW().EF_UOW())
{
var doc = efUoW.DocumentRepository.GetById(DocId);
var xdoc = XDocument.Parse(doc.Message);
var proc = new XProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type='text/xsl' href='/EDI850.xsl'");
xdoc.Root.AddBeforeSelf(proc);
var response = new HttpResponseMessage();
response.Content = new System.Net.Http.StringContent(xdoc.ToString());
response.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/xml");
response.Content.Headers.Add("X-UA-Compatible", "IE=edge");
return response;
}
I would be very grateful for any assistance in getting this to work.
And, yes, I know I shouldn't do the Async().Result -- blocking and all that... Let's just get this working first, shall we?

Moving files with Google Drive API v3

Im trying to move a file from one folder to another using the Google Drive API v3. I found documentation how to this here. I used the .NET sample code from the documentation page and created a method that looks like this:
public ActionResult MoveFile(string fileToMove, string destination)
{
DriveService service = new DriveService(new BaseClientService.Initializer
{
HttpClientInitializer = <USER CREDENTIAL>,
ApplicationName = "APPNAME"
});
var searchFiles = service.Files.List();
searchFiles.Corpus = FilesResource.ListRequest.CorpusEnum.User;
searchFiles.Q = "name = '" + fileToMove + "'";
searchFiles.Fields = "files(*)";
string fileToMoveId = searchFiles.Execute().Files[0].Id;
searchFiles.Q = "name = '" + destination + "'";
string destinationId = searchFiles.Execute().Files[0].Id;
//Code used from documentation
// Retrieve the existing parents to remove
var getRequest = service.Files.Get(fileToMoveId);
getRequest.Fields = "parents";
var file = getRequest.Execute();
var previousParents = String.Join(",", file.Parents);
// Move the file to the new folder
var updateRequest = service.Files.Update(file, fileToMoveId);
updateRequest.Fields = "id, parents";
updateRequest.AddParents = destinationId;
updateRequest.RemoveParents = previousParents;
file = updateRequest.Execute();
return RedirectToAction("Files", new {folderId = destinationId});
}
When I execute this code I get the following error:
The parents field is not directly writable in update requests. Use the
addParents and removeParents parameters instead.
The error doesn't really makes sense to me because this code sample came from the documentation page itself. I can't figure out what other paramters they mean. What addParents and removeParents parameters do they mean? Are updateRequest.AddParents and updateRequest.RemoveParents not the right parameters?

Ok here is the problem.
var updateRequest = service.Files.Update(file, fileToMoveId);
The method is requiring that you send a body of a file to be updated. This normally makes sense as any changes you want to make you can add to the body.
Now the problem you are having is that you got your file from a file.get. Which is totally normal. This is how you should be doing it. THe problem is there are some fields in that file that you cant update. So by sending the full file the API is rejecting your update. If you check Files: update under Request body you will see which fiends are updateable.
Issue:
Now this is either a problem with the client library or the API I am going to have to track down a few people at Google to see which is the case.
Fix:
I did some testing and sending an empty file object as the body works just fine. The file is moved.
var updateRequest = service.Files.Update(new Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File(), fileToMove.Id);
updateRequest.AddParents = directoryToMove.Id;
updateRequest.RemoveParents = fileToMove.Parents[0];
var movedFile = updateRequest.Execute();

This method works well when working in your own drive, but not in a team drive where a file (folder) can only have 1 parent strictly. I do not have the solution in a team drive

C# How to Embed Video by URL (like Facebook)?

I'm trying to allow users to post videos on my site by supplying only the URL. Right now I'm able to allow YouTube videos by just parsing the URL and obtaining the ID, and then inserting that ID into their given "embed" code and putting that on the page.
This limits me to only YouTube videos however, what I'm looking to do is something similar to facebook where you can put in the YouTube "Share" URL OR the url of the page directly, or any other video url, and it loads the video into their player.
Any idea how they do this? or any other comparable way to just show a video based just on a URL? Keep in mind that youtube videos (which would probably be most popular anyway) don't give the video url, but the url to the video on the YouTube page (which is why their embed code is needed with just the ID).
Hopefully this made sense, and I hope somebody might be able to offer me some advice on where to look!
Thanks guys.

I would suggest adding support for OpenGraph attributes, which are common among content services which work to enable other sites to embed their content. The information on the pages will be contained in their <meta> tags, which means you would have to load the URL via something like the HtmlAgilityPack:
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load(webClient.OpenRead(url)); // not exactly production quality
var openGraph = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach (var meta in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//meta"))
{
var property = meta["property"];
var content = meta["content"];
if (property != null && property.Value.StartsWith("og:"))
{
openGraph[property.Value]
= content != null ? content.Value : String.Empty;
}
}
// Supported by: YouTube, Vimeo, CollegeHumor, etc
if (openGraph.ContainsKey("og:video"))
{
// 1. Get the MIME Type
string mime;
if (!openGraph.TryGetValue("og:video:type", out mime))
{
mime = "application/x-shockwave-flash"; // should error
}
// 2. Get width/height
string _w, _h;
if (!openGraph.TryGetValue("og:video:width", out _w)
|| !openGraph.TryGetValue("og:video:height", out _h))
{
_w = _h = "300"; // probably an error :)
}
int w = Int32.Parse(_w), h = Int32.Parse(_h);
Console.WriteLine(
"<embed src=\"{0}\" type=\"{1}\" width=\"{2}\" height=\"{3}\" />",
openGraph["og:video"],
mime,
w,
h);
}

Desktop app to create event through a facebook page

I have a facebook fanpage and I am trying to make a desktop application which can create events through this fanpage, however I'm having trouble understanding how the story goes with acces tokens, id, user permissions... If I am not mistaken once I have the accesstoken I can create an event using the facebookSDK from codeplex and the following function:
public string CreateEvent(string accessToken)
{
FacebookClient facebookClient = new FacebookClient(accessToken);
Dictionary<string, object> createEventParameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();
createEventParameters.Add("name", "My birthday party )");
createEventParameters.Add("start_time", DateTime.Now.AddDays(2).ToUniversalTime().ToString());
createEventParameters.Add("end_time", DateTime.Now.AddDays(2).AddHours(4).ToUniversalTime().ToString());
createEventParameters.Add("owner", "Balaji Birajdar");
createEventParameters.Add("description", " ( a long description can be used here..)");
//Add the "venue" details
JsonObject venueParameters = new JsonObject();
venueParameters.Add("street", "dggdfgg");
venueParameters.Add("city", "gdfgf");
venueParameters.Add("state", "gfgdfgfg");
venueParameters.Add("zip", "gfdgdfg");
venueParameters.Add("country", "gfdgfg");
venueParameters.Add("latitude", "100.0");
venueParameters.Add("longitude", "100.0");
createEventParameters.Add("venue", venueParameters);
createEventParameters.Add("privacy", "OPEN");
createEventParameters.Add("location", "fhdhdfghgh");
Add the event logo image
FacebookMediaObject logo = new FacebookMediaObject()
{
ContentType = "image/jpeg",
FileName = #"C:\logo.jpg"
};
logo.SetValue(File.ReadAllBytes(logo.FileName));
createEventParameters["#file.jpg"] = logo;
JsonObject resul = facebookClient.Post("/me/events", createEventParameters) as JsonObject;
return resul["id"].ToString();
}
Do I always need an application to do this?
I have a test application and I can get an access token from it using:
public string getToken(string strURL)
{
string strURL = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=149585851811979&client_secret=blablablablabalalbal&grant_type=client_credentials";
Uri Uri = new Uri(strURL);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(Uri);
HttpWebResponse HWResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(HWResponse.GetResponseStream());
string token = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
token = token.Replace("access_token=", "");
return token;
}
I tried it like this but it obviously didn't work.
So my questions:
Do I always need an application? If yes, how do i connect it to my existing fan page?
Where do I set my user permissions? And how do I then login with the user?
I just think the documentation is a bit vague :s Sorry if my questions are stupid.
Any help/pseudocode is appreciated!

I am using BatchFB to create events in an App Engine app, it works for me, here is the code
// Some Date math that is from my App, but I am using Joda DateTime for output
// formatting.. I have found that if the start_time is malformed by FB standards it will
// to create an event, and give you an eventid, but the event never really gets created.
long hour = { your data }
DateTime start_time = new DateTime(d).plusHours((int)hour);
String stime = start_time.toString(ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime());
Batcher batcher = new FacebookBatcher(token);
Later<NewFeedItem> event = batcher.post(
"/events", NewFeedItem.class,
new Param("name", edata.getStringProperty(EventData.Schema.Name)),
new Param("start_time", stime )
);
long eventid = event.get().id;
I generate token on the client side with FBJS, and pass it to the server.
NewFeedItem is just a class defining an long variable, see batchFB's site..
With that said, I am thinking of switching to RestFB because I can't get BatchFB to support binary parameters with trying to post images. Also RestFB is documented better.. They seem to be related projects and refer to each other often.
I am not adding in Venue data yet, but I have read that for the GraphAPI to work, they need to be top level parameters. i.e. add in street, city, state at the same level as location and privacy..
When you try to read the event it will come in the venue parameter, but it needs to be top level when creating.. Also fallback to just using name and start_time, the only required parameters and add to that once it's working.
-John Gentilin

C#-Facebook-SDK WP7, the principles of how Facebook works?

Apologies if this is somewhere, but I'm struggling to find the details I need for wp7.
I have created the application on Facebook as required, and am retrieving an access token. The following code posts to Facebook but I cannot get a response, nor can I work out how to monitor the response?
public bool fbUpload(string accessToken, Picture pic)
{
try
{
Stream s = null;
s = PicturesLoader.LoadFileFromStorage(pic.Url);
//Sets the byte array to the correct number of bytes
byte[] imageData = new byte[s.Length];
s.Read(imageData, 0, System.Convert.ToInt32(s.Length));
FacebookApp app = new FacebookApp();
IDictionary<string, object> parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();
parameters.Add("access_token", accessToken);
parameters.Add("message", "TEST - WP7 application [upload pic and comment on wall...]");
var mediaObject = new FacebookMediaObject { FileName = pic.Name, ContentType = "image/jpeg" };
mediaObject.SetValue(imageData);
parameters["source"] = mediaObject;
FacebookAsyncResult postResult;
FacebookAsyncCallback fbCB = new FacebookAsyncCallback();
app.PostAsync(parameters, fbCB);
return true;
}
catch (InvalidCastException ex)
{
return false;
}
}
The other question I have, is how do you allow users to allow access based upon their own Facebook account. I want to store a user's account details so they only have to set up the account details once, and then they can use my phone app with having to sign in?

You can handle the post result something like this:
FacebookAsyncCallback callBack = new FacebookAsyncCallback(postResult);
fbApp.PostAsync(parameters, args, callBack);
private void postResult(FacebookAsyncResult asyncResult)
{
// Do something with asyncResult here;
}
Regarding the second question, you must ask for permissions to access this data.
You usually do that in the FacebookOAuthClient.GetLoginUrl(<appId>, null, <permissions>) method call.
Once that's done, you can store the files you have permissions to locally in your app.