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Adding Save() functionality to System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

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Using a combination of Reflector, Reflection, and C# 3.0 extension methods to add Save(string FileName) functionality to MailMessage in System.Net.Mail.
using System;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;

namespace MailMessageExtension
{
    public static class MailMessageExt
    {
        public static void Save(this MailMessage Message, string FileName)
        {
            Assembly assembly = typeof(SmtpClient).Assembly;
            Type _mailWriterType = assembly.GetType("System.Net.Mail.MailWriter");

            using (FileStream _fileStream = new FileStream(FileName, FileMode.Create))
            {
                // Get reflection info for MailWriter contructor
                ConstructorInfo _mailWriterContructor =
                    _mailWriterType.GetConstructor(
                        BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic,
                        null,
                        new Type[] { typeof(Stream) }, 
                        null);

                // Construct MailWriter object with our FileStream
                object _mailWriter = _mailWriterContructor.Invoke(new object[] { _fileStream });

                // Get reflection info for Send() method on MailMessage
                MethodInfo _sendMethod =
                    typeof(MailMessage).GetMethod(
                        "Send",
                        BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

                // Call method passing in MailWriter
                _sendMethod.Invoke(
                    Message,
                    BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic,
                    null,
                    new object[] { _mailWriter, true },
                    null);

                // Finally get reflection info for Close() method on our MailWriter
                MethodInfo _closeMethod =
                    _mailWriter.GetType().GetMethod(
                        "Close",
                        BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

                // Call close method
                _closeMethod.Invoke(
                    _mailWriter,
                    BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic,
                    null,
                    new object[] { },
                    null);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Software Developer Globe Business Publishing Ltd
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Started tinkering on an old BBC Microcomputer using BBC BASIC and progressed up to dabbling with C and ARMCode on an Acorn RiscPC. Moving to the PC platform I progressed from C++ to now a lot of C# and ASP.NET.

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