Drag Drop From Outlook

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I have a VB.Net application and I want to support the following. A user drags an email from Outlook and drops it on my application. I then convert the email to a format that I can store internally in my database (at this stage I’m just displaying it in my form). To do this I need to convert the message into RTF or HTML (or something else).


I have built a simple test application that handles the drag/drop OK, and it’s currently displaying the message in both RTF and HTML, but it doesn’t work if the message contains an inline image. In this case all I see is an image place holder.

Can you tell me how to handle messages with inline images?

I have attached a copy of my project so you can see the problem. All you need to do is drop an email (with an embedded image) on the top part of the form.

P.S. I am trying to avoid the use of files if possible, hence everything is handled in a stream.

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Hi,

Thank you for inquiry.

Image placeholders are displayed in RTF because Outlook does not saves the image’s data in the RTF of MSG file. The embedded images are stored as attachments and Outlook requests the image’s data from the attachments when it opens an MSG file.

For HTML messages, tags are used which again refers to the image in the LinkedResources collection. For displaying embedded images in your application, you can manually save the images in linked resources and manage/update path in the tags.

Aspose.Network for .NET provides overloaded methods for load and save files/attachments to/from streams, you may use these methods to avoid disk IO.