Embedded image in mail body is not displayed in webbrowser control in winforms

Question

I want to place the contents of a outlook mail body into a webbrowser control in winforms. everything is displayed if i use following code,but images in the page is not displayed. I am using outlook 2013 and VS2012.

webBrowser1.DocumentText = mail.HTMLBody;

I checked html it shows something like: It shows something like:

<img id=\"Picture_x0020_7\" src=\"cid:image002.png@01D10B5C.06CC63D0\" width=\"904\" height=\"768\">

As i want to implement it in project i can't save the mail body in local as suggested here: how to get embed image from current outlook email with c#?^]

Any help deeply appreciated.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '15 at 11:22

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You can find referenced embedded images stored as attachments in the mail item. You can save them on a disk or upload to any web server and then replace src attribute content of the <img/> tag in the code to a new value so the browser can display images correctly.

Or just try to save the mail item using the HTML file format. The SaveAs method of the MailItem class saves the Microsoft Outlook item to the specified path and in the format of the specified file type. If the file type is not specified, the MSG format (.msg) is used. Note, you need to use the olHTML value for the Type parameter.

answered Oct 21 '15 at 11:22

Eugene Astafiev

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@DigambarMalla have u ever finished it? – coder771 Mar 15 '16 at 09:22
@coder771, I used below control to solve that problem. https://yarte.codeplex.com/ – Digambar Malla Mar 17 '16 at 06:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 21:39

Below is what you need to do:

    private void sendInlineImg() {
    MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
    mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
    mail.AlternateViews.Add(getEmbeddeImage());
    mail.From = new MailAddress("yourAddress@yourDomain");
    mail.To.Add("recipient@hisDomain");
    mail.Subject = "yourSubject";
    //YourSMTPClient.Send(mail); //* Set your SMTPClient before!
}
private AlternateView getEmbeddeImage() {
    string yourFile = "c:/header.png";
    LinkedResource inline = new LinkedResource(yourFile);
    inline.ContentId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    string htmlBody = @"<img src='cid:" + inline.ContentId + @"'/>";
    AlternateView alternateView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(htmlBody, null, MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);
    alternateView.LinkedResources.Add(inline);
    return alternateView;
}

Embedded image in mail body is not displayed in webbrowser control in winforms

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