Create inline attachment

The following example shows you how to create inline attachments and how to hide attachments. It is shown how to create new message with HTML body and embed image in the message body.

C# example

using System;
using System.Net;
using Independentsoft.Exchange;

namespace Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            NetworkCredential credential = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
            Service service = new Service("https://myserver/ews/Exchange.asmx", credential);

            try
            {
                Message message = new Message();
                message.Subject = "Inline";
                message.HideAttachments = true;
                message.Body = new Body("<html><body>Here is a message with an inline attachment:<br><img widht=\"640\" height=\"480\" id=\"Picture1\" src=\"cid:picture.jpg@123456\"></img></body></html>", BodyType.Html);

                ItemId itemId = service.CreateItem(message);

                FileAttachment fileAttachment = new FileAttachment("c:\\test\\picture.jpg");
                fileAttachment.ContentId = "picture.jpg@123456";

                AttachmentId attachmentId = service.CreateAttachment(fileAttachment, itemId);

                //Update itemId
                itemId.ChangeKey = attachmentId.RootItemChangeKey;

                //Send message
                ItemInfoResponse response = service.Send(itemId);
            }
            catch (ServiceRequestException ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.XmlMessage);
                Console.Read();
            }
            catch (WebException ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
                Console.Read();
            }
        }
    }
}

VB example

Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports Independentsoft.Exchange

Namespace Sample
    Class Module1
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            Dim credential As New NetworkCredential("username", "password")
            Dim service As New Service("https://myserver/ews/Exchange.asmx", credential)

            Try
                Dim message As New Message()
                message.Subject = "Inline"
                message.HideAttachments = True
                message.Body = New Body("<html><body>Here is a message with an inline attachment:<br><img widht=""640"" height=""480"" id=""Picture1"" src=""cid:picture.jpg@123456""></img></body></html>", BodyType.Html)

                Dim itemId As ItemId = service.CreateItem(message)

                Dim fileAttachment As New FileAttachment("c:\test\picture.jpg")
                fileAttachment.ContentId = "picture.jpg@123456"

                Dim attachmentId As AttachmentId = service.CreateAttachment(fileAttachment, itemId)

            Catch ex As ServiceRequestException
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message)
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.XmlMessage)
                Console.Read()
            Catch ex As WebException
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message)
                Console.Read()
            End Try

        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

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