The easiest way to parse an email attachment into my SQL database

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Hi,

I'm writing a Windows app that fetches price-/availability information from my companys different suppliers. Some of them distribute their information as XML or CSV from an URL which I can easily parse into my SQL database after fetching them with httpResponse/httpRequest.

Some of them however, send a file attachment once a day by email. Is there a fairly easy way that I can read this attachment from my C# application? We have our own Exchange server that sits in the same AD-domain as the application server where the app will run, but I don't know if that helps?

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Erlend Neergaard

Posted 29-Nov-11 2:43am

Erlend neergaard

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Michel [mjbohn] · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-29T09:56:00

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I guess the easiest way to fetch these mails is using the Exchange Web Services (EWS)
These links might help you:
Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2 SDK[^]
Getting attachments by using the EWS Managed API[^]

Posted 29-Nov-11 9:56am

Michel [mjbohn]

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Erlend neergaard 29-Nov-11 18:08pm

Cheers! I'll check out EWS.