Send a Meeting Request with System.Net.Mail

The calendar appointment email is just normal email attached with ics file contains appointment details.
This code will show you how to create simple ics file and how to attach it with the email.

SmtpClient sc = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("patelpc.mits@gmail.com", "PC Patel");
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("youremail@host.com", "Your Name"));
msg.Subject = "Send Calendar Appointment Email";
msg.Body = "Here is the Body Content";

StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCALENDAR");
str.AppendLine("PRODID:-//patelpc.blogspot.in");
str.AppendLine("VERSION:2.0");
str.AppendLine("METHOD:REQUEST");
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTART:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", startTime));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTAMP:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.UtcNow));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTEND:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", endTime));
str.AppendLine("LOCATION: Mumbai");
str.AppendLine(string.Format("UID:{0}", Guid.NewGuid()));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DESCRIPTION:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("SUMMARY:{0}", msg.Subject));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("ORGANIZER:MAILTO:{0}", msg.From.Address));

str.AppendLine(string.Format("ATTENDEE;CN=\"{0}\";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:{1}", msg.To[0].DisplayName, msg.To[0].Address));

str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("TRIGGER:-PT15M");
str.AppendLine("ACTION:DISPLAY");
str.AppendLine("DESCRIPTION:Reminder");
str.AppendLine("END:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("END:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine("END:VCALENDAR");
System.Net.Mime.ContentType ct = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");
ct.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");
AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str.ToString(), ct);
msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal);

sc.Send(msg);

The calendar text lines limit is 76 character if the body or any line more than that you have to split it to more lines the first line must be 76 character and the others is 75 with tab space in the begin of the line "\t" in C# and vbTab in VB.

Grouping in dropdownlist in ASP.NET

HTML

<select id="mySelect">
    <option optGroup='a'>1</option>
    <option optGroup='a'>1</option>
    <option optGroup='a'>1</option>
    <option optGroup='b'>2</option>
    <option optGroup='b'>2</option>
</select>

JQuery

function SetupOptGroups(select) {
    var optGroups=new Array();    
    var i = 0;

    $(select).find("[optGroup]").each(function(index, domEle) {
        var optGroup = $(this).attr("optGroup");
        if ($.inArray(optGroup, optGroups)==-1) optGroups[i++] = optGroup;
    });

    for(i=0; i < optGroups.length; i++){
        $("option[optGroup='"+optGroups[i]+"']").wrapAll("<optgroup label='"+optGroups[i]+"'>");
    }
}