Problem in sending email as html body

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I wanna send an image file as html body (not as attachment) in C# Winform application. Please help.

here is the code, that I am using..

private void btn_Send_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           Control c = zgc;
           System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(c.Width, c.Height);
           c.DrawToBitmap(bmp, c.ClientRectangle);
           bmp.Save( Application.StartupPath + "\\abc.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
           //MessageBox.Show(" Image Successfully Created...");
           SendMail();
           MessageBox.Show("Mail Sent Successfully...!","Message Sent",MessageBoxButtons.OK,MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);

       }

       public void SendMail()
       {
           System.Net.NetworkCredential _Credential = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(txt_UserID.Text, txt_pass.Text);
           System.Net.Mail.MailMessage _MailMessage = new MailMessage();
           _MailMessage.To.Add(txt_To.Text);
           _MailMessage.Subject = txt_subject.Text;

           _MailMessage.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(txt_To.Text);
           _MailMessage.Body = txt_Msg.Text;
           _MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;
           _MailMessage.Body = _MailMessage.Body;

           AlternateView av1 = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(_MailMessage.Body, null, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);
           string strImageUrl = Application.StartupPath + "//abc.jpg";
           LinkedResource logo = new LinkedResource(strImageUrl, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg);
           logo.ContentId = "companylogo";
           //To refer to this image in the html body, use <img src="cid:companylogo"/>
           av1.LinkedResources.Add(logo);
           _MailMessage.AlternateViews.Add(av1);


           if (chk_Table.Checked == true)
           {
               _MailMessage.Body += htmlMessageBody(dataGridView1, dataGridView2).ToString();
           }
           if (chk_Chart.Checked == true)
           {
               System.Net.Mail.Attachment att = new Attachment(Application.StartupPath + "\\abc.jpg");
               _MailMessage.Attachments.Add(att);
           }
           //_MailMessage.Attachments.Add(new SmtpAttachment(att,"image/jpg", AttachmentLocation.Inline));






           System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient _SmtpClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(txt_smtp.Text);
           _SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
           _SmtpClient.EnableSsl = Convert.ToBoolean(cb_ssl.SelectedItem.ToString());
           _SmtpClient.Credentials = _Credential;
           _SmtpClient.Port = Convert.ToInt32(txt_Port.Text);
           _SmtpClient.Send(_MailMessage);
       }

       public StringBuilder htmlMessageBody(DataGridView dg, DataGridView dg1)
       {
           StringBuilder strB = new StringBuilder();
           //create html & table
           strB.AppendLine("<html><body><center><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>");
           strB.AppendLine("</br><tr style=background-color:Silver>");
           //cteate table header
           for (int i = 0; i < dg.Columns.Count; i++)
           {
               strB.AppendLine("<td align='center' valign='middle'>" + dg.Columns[i].HeaderText + "</td>");
           }
           //create table body
           strB.AppendLine("<tr>");
           for (int i = 0; i < dg.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
           {
               strB.AppendLine("<tr>");
               foreach (DataGridViewCell dgvc in dg.Rows[i].Cells)
               {
                   strB.AppendLine("<td align='center' valign='middle'>" + dgvc.Value.ToString() + "</td>");
               }
               strB.AppendLine("</tr>");
           }
           strB.AppendLine("<tr>");
           for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
           {
               strB.AppendLine("<tr  style=background-color:Gray>");
               foreach (DataGridViewCell dgvc in dg1.Rows[i].Cells)
               {
                   strB.AppendLine("<td align='center' valign='middle'>" + dgvc.Value.ToString() + "</td>");
               }
               strB.AppendLine("</tr>");
           }
           //table footer & end of html file
           strB.AppendLine("</table></center><br/><br/>");

           strB.AppendLine("<center><img src=cid:companylogo\"></center></body></html>");
           return strB;
       }

Posted 21-Apr-12 1:44am

djrocks0101

Updated 25-Apr-12 1:18am

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Sandeep Mewara 21-Apr-12 7:53am

Help in what? What have you tried so far?

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sravani.v · Answer 1 · 2012-04-21T01:48:00

Solution 1

Refer this may help you:

Sending Email Using Embedded Images[^]

http://www.example-code.com/csharp/HtmlEmbeddedImage.asp[^]

Posted 21-Apr-12 1:48am

sravani.v

Updated 21-Apr-12 1:52am

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djrocks0101 21-Apr-12 7:58am

This one is not working for me..

[no name] 21-Apr-12 8:09am

"is not working" is not very descriptive of your problem is it? How about you post the code for what you have tried and describe what is not working?

djrocks0101 25-Apr-12 7:10am

dear I wanna send image as body, but the link given above sends the image as attachment.

[no name] 25-Apr-12 7:14am

How about you help people out by posting the code you are trying. You just might be doing it wrong.

djrocks0101 25-Apr-12 7:18am

I have improved my question, now it includes the code..

djrocks0101 21-Apr-12 8:15am

This code sample sends the image file as an attachment..and I wanna mail it as html body..