(VB.NET) Create AMP for Email

Demonstrates how to create an email that has the AMP for Email Format.

See AMP for Email specification for more information.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

email.Subject = "Sample AMP for Email"
email.From = "mary@example.com"
email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

' Create the following AMP for Email HTML

' <!doctype html>
' <html amp4email>
' <head>
'   <meta charset="utf-8">
'   <style amp4email-boilerplate>body{visibility:hidden}</style>
'   <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>
' </head>
' <body>
' Hello, world.
' </body>
' </html>

Dim sbAmp4Html As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbAmp4Html.Append("<!doctype html>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<html amp4email>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<head>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<meta charset=""utf-8"">")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<style amp4email-boilerplate>body{visibility:hidden}</style>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<script async src=""https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js""></script>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("</head>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("<body>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("Hello, world.")
sbAmp4Html.Append("</body>")
sbAmp4Html.Append("</html>")

' We want to build a multipart/alternative email, where the 1st alternative body
' is text/plain, the 2nd is text/x-amp-html, and the last is text/html.
' (Some email clients will only render the last MIME part, so we recommend placing the text/x-amp-html MIME part before the text/html MIME part.)

' First create a plain-text email body:
email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("Hello World in plain text!")

' Now add the text/x-amp-html.
email.SetTextBody(sbAmp4Html.GetAsString(),"text/x-amp-html")

' Now add an HTML body..
email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<span>Hello World in HTML!</span>")

' See what we have:
Debug.WriteLine(email.GetMime())

' This is the result:

' MIME-Version: 1.0
' Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 09:37:56 -0500
' Message-ID: <923A689FF657170A9F662B4CE87978AB1EBD4DBD@CHILKATSLICE>
' Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
'  boundary="------------040205090807060906020803"
' X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
' Subject: Sample AMP for Email
' From: mary@example.com
' To: Joe <joe@example.com>
' 
' --------------040205090807060906020803
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
' 
' Hello World in plain text!
' --------------040205090807060906020803
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
' Content-Type: text/x-amp-html; charset=us-ascii
' 
' <!doctype html><html amp4email><head><meta charset="utf-8"><style amp4email-boilerplate>body{visibility:hidden}</style><script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script></head><body>Hello, world.</body></html>
' --------------040205090807060906020803
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
' Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
' 
' <span>Hello World in HTML!</span>
' 
' --------------040205090807060906020803--