Feedback!

Just a quick one about the new feedback system in app. We have our browser based feedback page but when a user is actually playing the game, of course we want a way of letting them tell us how awesome it is.

Venturing into the technical details, the mechanism is simply to create a simple SMTP client which uses a dev email to send a message. An example which is written in C#:

        MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
        mail.From = new MailAddress(myDevEmail);
        mail.To.Add(toEmail);
        mail.Subject = subject;
        mail.Body = message;

        SmtpClient smtpServer = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");
        smtpServer.Port = 587;
        smtpServer.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(myDevEmail, "some credential") as ICredentialsByHost;
        smtpServer.EnableSsl = true;

        ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback
            = delegate(object s, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors) {
        // Something
        return true;
    };

        smtpServer.Send( mail );

This of course is powered by a simple UI to gather a users feedback and then it can be sent to toEmail. This basic method of sending emails to us for monitoring is also used for bug and error reporting.