[2005] E-mailing Contents of Listview

Hello,

I wonder if anyone can help me please ?

I have a listview which contains several rows of data relating to several employees.
I'd like to know if it is possible to e-mail each employee the rows relating to them.

So for example :

Row 1 = Joe Bloggs / ABC / DEF / GHI
Row 2 = Fred Bloggs / 123 / 456 / 789
Row 3 = Joe Bloggs / XYZ / XYZ / XYZ

Joe would get an e-mail containing 2 rows and Fred would get an e-mail containing 1 row.

Is this possible ?
If so, where would I begin ?

Thanks.

One way to do it would be to use a Dictionary perhaps. Then when sending the email output the value into the body of the email text and send. Loop through each person to send a new email. This might give you a start:

vb Code:

Dim myRecords As New Dictionary(Of String, List(Of String))
 
If Not myRecords.ContainsKey("Joe Bloggs") Then      'If Name doesn't exist then add it to dictionary Key
    myRecords.Add("Joe Bloggs", New List(Of String))   'Add name
    myRecords("Joe Bloggs").Add("ABC / DEF / GHI")       'Add value
End If
 
If myRecords.ContainsKey("Joe Bloggs") Then          'If name already exists then simply 
      myRecords("Joe Bloggs").Add("XYZ / XYZ / XYZ")     'add new value
End If
 
'Set up your email and in the body text you would
'Loop through the contents per Key (person you send it to)
'output the content for that particular key into body of email
For Each itm As KeyValuePair(Of String, List(Of String)) In myRecords
      For i As Integer = 0 To itm.Value.Count - 1
          MessageBox.Show(itm.Key & " " & itm.Value.Item(i))   'Show name and any values associated in collection
      Next
Next

edit I should add that this would assume you loop through your ListView and pass each of the values in the columns into the values above so you wouldn't obviously need to literally pass the value Joe Bloggs etc...

Thanks Stimbo - I'll have a look into that.