Survey Program in Email

[colesr]

I have minor C# coding experience and I have a question. I research on the forum and could not find another thread that addresses my question, if you have a thread that you cn refer me to, that works also. Also, I will probably not be speaking in highly technical language as I don't have the vocabulary, yet...

Here is my problem:

I have a database of contacts - email addresses, to be specific. I have a newletter that is sent out and I want to include a survey so that I can customize the nature of the interaction with the contacts. I envision the survey results impacting fields in the database that then impact how we interact with these contacts.

I can send out a survey, such as "Survey Monkey," and I can download the results and manually input this data into the database. I was also wondering if there was a way that I could write a program and include it as an attachment in the email. The respondent would open the program and answer a few questions and the program would terminate. I envision the program being able to impact the database directly, without me needing to manually change records based on survey results from another database.

What do you think? Is the program possible? Where would be good start?

Thank you for your help!

[Hack]

Moved To C#

[colesr]

Please help! This is for a graduate assistantship and I need this project to get approved for another semester!!

[Madcat1981]

I personally would not open an application which was in an attachment and I think it would be blocked any way by protection.

Could you just not set up a website to feed directly into your database and include the link in the email?

[colesr]

Hmmm.. that would work. How do I link a website to a database? I'm not necessarily looking for an explanation. Just a point in the right direction.

[Chris H]

Easiest way if you plan on using C# would be to setup an ASP.Net site that queries and updates a SQL Server database. All of this can be done for free.

Best place to start would be downloading and installing MS Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express. There is some setup to be done before you can actually start writing code.

After that I'd start learning how to use ASP.Net and SQL Server.