Not a clue, but hit the debug button in Visual Studio and find out what's going wrong. Also, try and have a look in the umbracoLog table or your windows event log to see any errors, surely there must be something there.

Alright got the sendmail to work!

I got another problem now.

In my datatype i render a textbox - in this textbox i can write a number ex. 5 - when i then hit save and publish i get some information from 5 users which is then saved on the <data> on the node holding the datatype.

So when i save and publish my textbox goes away and i render a <table> with the information and a button which can be clicked and sends out an email to the 5 users.

The problem is that when i hit the button to send the email after i have clicked save and publish it does not send anything but when i hit it the second time it goes into my click event and sends out the emails.

Any ideas? I think it got something to do when i create my button in the code.

Is it possible to overrinde onload / onprerender in my datatype ? Right now i have the save and oninit event.

Is it possible that you could might share some of your code? I think it would make it a bit easier to help you out?

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with the stuff you're working at - But I'm think that you could maybe achieve your goal by using the MailEngine created by Tim Geysens? It can be found here: http://www.nibble.be/?p=63 - And it's just a proposal :-)

/Jan

I got it to work even though it is not pretty!

I cant use OnLoad og OnPreRender. OnPreRender is actually what i need, so i can have my AddControls() there. However it doesnt work!

It goes like this, have deleted some code, to shorten it down, it was just where i had string concat to my winnerTable.

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnInit(e);

            _emailButton = new Button();
            _emailButton.Text = "Send email";
            _emailButton.Click += new EventHandler(button_Click);

            AddControls(this._data.Value.ToString(), _emailButton);
        }

private void AddControls(string data, Button button)
        {
            if (data.Length > 0)
            {
                XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
                doc.LoadXml(data);

                XmlNodeList nodes = doc.GetElementsByTagName("winners");
                bool emailSent = false;


                foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
                {
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(node.Attributes["email"].Value))
                    {
                          emailSent = Convert.ToBoolean(node.Attributes["email"].Value;
                    }
                }

                List<Winner> winners = Helper.ConvertXMLToList(data);
                FastString winnerTable = string.Empty;

                if (winners.Count > 0)
                {
                   // winnerTable concat here
                    if (!emailSent)
                    {
                        // winnerTable concat button
                        base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(winnerTable));
                        base.Controls.Add(button);
                        base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(winnerTable));
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        //winnerTable end concat
                        base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(winnerTable));
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    TextBox winnerCount = new TextBox();
                    winnerCount.ID = "WinnerCountTextBox";

                    base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<div style=\"font-weight:bold;\">"));
                    base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Antal vindere"));
                    base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</div>"));

                    base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<div>"));
                    base.Controls.Add(winnerCount);
                    base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</div>"));
                }
            }
            else
            {
                this._data.Value = Helper.ConvertListToXML(new List<Winner>(), false);

                TextBox winnerCount = new TextBox();
                winnerCount.ID = "WinnerCountTextBox";

                base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<div style=\"font-weight:bold;\">"));
                base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Antal vindere"));
                base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</div>"));

                base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<div>"));
                base.Controls.Add(winnerCount);
                base.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</div>"));
            }
        }

public void Save()
        {
            TextBox winnerCount = null;
            foreach (Control childControl in base.Controls)
            {
                if (childControl is TextBox)
                {
                    if (childControl.ID == "WinnerCountTextBox")
                    {
                        winnerCount = (TextBox)childControl;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

            if (winnerCount != null)
            {
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(winnerCount.Text.Trim()))
                {
                    int pageid = Convert.ToInt32(HttpContext.Current.Request["id"]);
                    List<Winner> winners = new List<Winner>();
                    winners = Helper.GetRandomWinners(pageid, Convert.ToInt32(winnerCount.Text.Trim()));
                    this._data.Value = Helper.ConvertListToXML(winners, false);

                    HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString()); <----- THIS MAKES IT WORK! BUT IT IS NOT PRETTY
                }
            }
        }

void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            //Send email to the winners

        }

I do have a little problem well not a problem but a little issue. When I get my winners and save the data gets saved on the node but when i go look in the cmsContentXml table i cant see the actual data - but its there casue the node is displaying in fine. Dont know what it i might be.

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