# For Future Reference: Creating Templated Emails...very nice method using UserControls

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I've done this in a few ways in the past, ranging from custom XML templates with XSLT / Regular Expressions to screen scraping - [this](http://blog.fluentconsulting.com/archives/000042.html) is just the simplest and cleanest way I've seen to do this (also a very nice example of using the RenderControl method...). Actually, be sure to check out the rest of the content on [this blog](http://blog.fluentconsulting.com/), some really handy stuff on there...