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webbrowser with emoji / emoticon

Folks,
I'm doing a post on a web page with emoji / emoticon. But after posted the site does not display the emoticon. Must you use a different Encoding? If so how can I do?
Example have this emoji 👐💓⛪🌇 the site only shows me that ⛪ Other special characters appear.
if (currentElement.GetAttribute("type") == "submit")
if (currentElement.Name == "view_post")
{
string postagem = txtPublicacao.Text;
HtmlElement elea = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("u_0_0");
if (elea != null)
elea.SetAttribute("value", postagem);
currentElement.InvokeMember("click");
}

I think you can prevent yourself from experiencing some future grief by ensuring that blocks are enclosed in brackets like so:
if (currentElement.GetAttribute("type") == "submit")
{
if (currentElement.Name == "view_post")
{
string postagem = txtPublicacao.Text;
HtmlElement elea = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("u_0_0");
// if condition and response either on one line:
if (elea != null) elea.SetAttribute("value", postagem);
// ...or use "{}" in preparation for possible future additions to the reponse to the if condition
if (elea != null)
{
elea.SetAttribute("value", postagem);
}
currentElement.InvokeMember("click");
}
}
Or better yet, since you have two consecutive "ifs" before code is executed, combine them like so:
if ((currentElement.GetAttribute("type") == "submit") &&
(currentElement.Name == "view_post"))
{
string postagem = txtPublicacao.Text;
HtmlElement elea = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("u_0_0");
if (elea != null) elea.SetAttribute("value", postagem);
currentElement.InvokeMember("click");
}

Gmail api read/decode message c#

I'm using the new gmail api in c# application, and I want to know how I can read the body of a message after getting the message with the get method? Can i get a MailMessage object from the "Raw" property of the message (to create a Raw from a mailMessage i use this, is there a way to convert it back?), or i need to use the "Payload" property?
This is my code: (the ListMessages and the GetMessage methods are from the
API Reference on google's site)
List<Message> msgList = ListMessages(gs, "me", "is:unread");
string id = msgList[0].Id;
Message msg = GetMessage(gs, "me", id);
Now what?
Please help.
Thanks.

From the API, your Message (1) has a Payload property of type MessagePart (2). MessagePart has a Body property of type MessagePartBody (3) which (finally) has a string Data property.
Data is the content of the message, so (using your example code) to get the message you would do something like:
msg.Payload.Body.Data
From there, how you use it is up to you, although you have to be aware that there may or may not be HTML in that value. From the API reference, we also see this for the Parts property of the Payload:
For non- container MIME message part types, such as text/plain, this
field is empty
So you could make the assumption that if msg.Payload.Parts contains no elements then it is a plain-text message.

The Gmail API is not super easy to use. They really leave a lot to the user to just figure out.
You're going to need to use recursion to get the correct structure and do some decoding of the message. The structure of the JSON is going to be very different depending on the format of the message, if there are attachments and the sending client.
This guide goes over exactly how to handle extracting the HTML and Plain text versions of the body.
Here part of the code from the guide that shows how to extract the body parts:
public static void ExtractMessagePart(MessagePart part, ref EmailMessageModel message)
{
if (part == null)
return;
var contentDisposition = part.Headers?.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-Disposition");
if (contentDisposition != null && (contentDisposition.Value.StartsWith("attachment") || contentDisposition.Value == "inline"))
{
message.Attachments.Add(new DragnetTech.EventProcessors.Email.EmailMessageModel.Attachment
{
AttachmentId = part.Body.AttachmentId,
Filename = part.Filename,
ContentID = contentDisposition.Value.StartsWith("inline") || part.Headers?.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-ID") != null ? Utils.UnescapeUnicodeCharacters(part.Headers.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-ID")?.Value) : null,
Size = part.Body.Size ?? 0,
ExchangeID = part.Body.AttachmentId,
Data = part.Body.Data,
ContentType = part.Headers?.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-Type")?.Value
});
}
else
{
if (part.MimeType == "text/plain")
{
message.Body = DecodeSection(part.Headers?.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-Transfer-Encoding")?.Value, part.Body?.Data);
message.IsHtml = false;
}
else if (part.MimeType == "text/html")
{
message.Body = DecodeSection(part.Headers?.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Name == "Content-Transfer-Encoding")?.Value, part.Body?.Data);
message.IsHtml = true;
}
}
if (part.Parts != null)
{
foreach (var np in part.Parts)
{
ExtractMessagePart(np, ref message);
}
}
}

Updating ContentBlock pulled from pageManager.LoadControl(). Sitefinity 5

Asked this on the forums as well, but no luck as of yet. What I need to do is set the HTML content of each content block on a given page. It seems that I can set the html value okay, but saving it does not update the actual page.
I'm wondering if it's because there needs to be some sort of save call on the control. There doesn't seem to be any methods available for such an action.
foreach (var c in duplicated.Page.Controls)
{
// go through the properties, se the ID to grab the right text
foreach (var p in c.Properties)
{
if (p.Name == "ID")
{
var content = pageContent.Where(content_pair => content_pair.Key == p.Value).SingleOrDefault();
var control = pageManager.LoadControl(c);
if (control is ContentBlock)
{
var contentBlock = pageManager.LoadControl(c) as ContentBlock;
contentBlock.Html = content.Value;
}
}
}
}
pageManager.SaveChanges(); */
WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(duplicated.Id, typeof(PageNode), null, "Publish", false, bag);

The following code may help you achieve what you need.
It will first get the page by its title (I am looking for a page by the title "duplicated" as it's implied by your code).
It generates a new draft of the current page, then go over its controls.
Controls which are detected as content blocks are then iterated in a foreach loop.
As written in the comment inside the foreach loop, you may detect controls by their explicit ID (by the property named "ID") or by their related shared content block (by the property named "SharedContentID") or any other condition (or ignore this condition altogether, which would result in updating all the controls n the page.
Once we have a control to update at hand, you can set its new value depending on the localization settings of your project.
After that the draft is saved and published and optionally a new version is created for it.
PageManager pageManager = PageManager.GetManager();
VersionManager vmanager = VersionManager.GetManager();
PageNode duplicated = pageManager.GetPageNodes().FirstOrDefault(p => p.Title == "duplicate");
if (duplicated != null)
{
var draft = pageManager.EditPage(duplicated.Page.Id, true);
string contentBlockTypeName = typeof(ContentBlock).FullName;
PageDraftControl[] contentBlocks = draft.Controls.Where(contentBlock => contentBlock.ObjectType == contentBlockTypeName).ToArray();
foreach (PageDraftControl contentBlock in contentBlocks)
{
Guid contentBlockId = contentBlock.Id;
//User "SharedContentID" if you are looking up controls which are linked to a shared content block of a specific ID.
//If you you are trying to locate a specific control by its own ID, use the explicit "ID" property instead of "SharedCotentID"
if (contentBlock.Properties.Where(prop => prop.Name == "SharedContentID" && prop.Value.ToString() == contentItemIdstr).FirstOrDefault() != null)
{
ControlProperty htmlProperty = contentBlock.Properties.Where(prop => prop.Control.Id == contentBlockId && prop.Name == "Html").FirstOrDefault();
if (htmlProperty != null)
{
if (AppSettings.CurrentSettings.Multilingual)
{
htmlProperty.GetString("MultilingualValue").SetString(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, "New Value");
}
else
{
htmlProperty.Value = "New Value";
}
}
}
}
draft = pageManager.SavePageDraft(draft);
draft.ParentPage.LockedBy = Guid.Empty;
pageManager.PublishPageDraft(draft);
pageManager.DeletePageTempDrafts(draft.ParentPage);
//Use the 2 next lines to create a new version of your page, if you wish.
//Otherwise the content will be updated on the current page version.
vmanager.CreateVersion(draft, draft.ParentPage.Id, true);
vmanager.SaveChanges();
pageManager.SaveChanges();
}
I hope this code helps.
Alon.

Error is shown in function

What is causing an error in my code below:
public void SetOperationDropDown()
{
if(CmbOperations.Items.Count == 0)
{
//ByDefault the selected text in the cmbOperations will be -SELECT OPERATIONS-.
cmbOperations.SelectedItem = "-SELECT OPERATIONS-";
//This is for adding four operations with value in operation dropdown
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(0, "PrimaryKeyTables");
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(1, "NonPrimaryKeyTables");
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(2, "ForeignKeyTables");
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(3, "NonForeignKeyTables");
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(4, "UPPERCASEDTables");
cmbOperations.Items.Insert(5, "lowercasedtables");
}
else
{
int? cbSelectedValue = null;
//OP ERROR SHOWN HERE
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cmbOperations.SelectedValue))
cbSelectedValue = convert.toInt32(cmbOperations.SelectedValue);
}
//load your combo again
//OP ERROR SHOWN HERE
if(cbSelectedValue != null)
cmbOperations.SelectedValue = cbSelectedValue.ToString();
}
(The error occurs specifically in this snippet of code:
cbSelectedValue.ToString();)

SelectedValue is an object, not a string. So you need to convert it to a string:
if(cmbOperations.SelectedValue != null && !cmbOperations.SelectedValue.ToString() == string.Empty)

How to access the subject of a compose mail item in Outlook

In Outlook, I can set the subject for a new message (when composing a new mail message), but I want to prepend text. So I need to get the subject first, and then set it.
Outlook.Application application = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application;
Outlook.Inspector inspector = application.ActiveInspector();
Outlook.MailItem myMailItem = (Outlook.MailItem)inspector.CurrentItem;
if (myMailItem != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(myMailItem.Subject))
{
myMailItem.Subject = "Following up on your order";
}
This code works on replies, but not for new messages, because in that case, myMailItem is null.

This is what I was looking for:
if (thisMailItem != null)
{
thisMailItem.Save();
if (thisMailItem.EntryID != null)
{
thisMailItem.Subject = "prepended text: " + thisMailItem.Subject;
thisMailItem.Send();
}
}
The subject was null until the mail item had been saved, either because it was sent, or as a draft. We can save it programmatically and then get the subject.
One other note: if the subject is blank at the time of saving, it will still show as null.